On Valentine’s Day, 1779, Captain James Cook invited Hawaii’s King Kalani‘ōpu‘u to visit his ship, the Resolution. Cook and the King were on friendly terms, but, on this particular day ...

Though controversy erupted when a shipwreck was declared to be the HMS Endeavour back in 2022, a new published report ...

Native boats gather around the Resolution and Discovery in Alaska’s glacier-rimmed Prince William Sound. (Engraving, after Webber’s sketch, published in 1784 in A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...

When HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure set sail from Plymouth, England, in 1772, the ships were stocked for a long and grueling journey into the unknown. Provisions included 60,000 tons of biscuit ...

When Cook set sail from Plymouth on July 12, 1776, in command of the Resolution, a 110-foot sloop, he was 47, and had been lured from a brief retirement posting at London’s Greenwich Hospital.

After English Captain Cook was killed by Hawaiians at Kealakekua, Hawaii, on Feb. 14, 1779, Captain Clerke took command of Cook’s ships Resolution and Discovery and prepared to resume Cook’s ...

Captain Cook’s story is the apotheosis of the adventure stories Sides tells so well. Humans will never lose their yearning for exploration, and Cook was the master.