A medal marking Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery in 1772 has sold ... to future explorers that Captain Cook had been the first to reach unexplored lands and also to introduce ...
Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final ... his second Pacific voyage, Mai requested passage, becoming the first Polynesian to ...
In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...
His memorials have been the focus of Australia Day protests in recent years but Captain James Cook's life and death show he ...
English Captain James Cook landed at Possession Bay in South Georgia Island. While his vessel HMS Resolution sat at anchor in ...