In The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, Hampton Sides both wrestles with Cook’s legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterized exploration in the 1700s.

Jun 27, 2024 · Captain Cook and his crew return in July 1771. Captain James Cook was an important explorer, he was the first European to map the east coast of Australia.

Apr 1, 2024 · A popular poet named Anna Seward published an elegy in which the Muses, apprised of Cook’s passing, shed “drops of Pity’s holy dew.” (The work sold briskly and was often reprinted without ...

Apr 27, 2024 · James Cooke married Anna Ford & had Stephen Cooke, ca1774. He died in 1782. Slaves Sillar & Gilbert, among others, are distributed; Anna ended up on the 1783 Pers Prop Tax List with one or the other in Cumberland & Amelia.

Jan 1, 2005 · An internationally bestselling, award-winning novel peering deep into the passions, losses, and reveries of the wife of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook. After twelve years of marriage to English explorer James Cook, Elizabeth has yet …

HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand in 1769-71.

On October 10th 1725 she married James Cook, a day farm labourer, who had come south from the banks of the River Tweed in Roxburghshire, Scotland, following the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. The centre of Thornaby has moved in recent years and is now part of Stockton-on-Tees.

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On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians.

The schooner carried the Cook family to Madeira, the Canary Islands, and then 6000 miles to Rio de Janeiro. They then followed Captain Cook's route across the South Atlantic calling at the remote island of Tristan da Cuna, before arriving in Cape Town.