On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline. It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook.

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South ... passage from Europe to Asia but instead, with the maps he created and his reports, Cook revealed the Pacific islands and their people to the world.

This supposed lecture titled "Highlights of Hawaiian History" discusses key events in Hawaii's past, including Captain James Cook's discovery of the islands in 1778 and the arrival of missionaries ...

upon entering a ship,” wrote Captain James Cook upon first landing in what he called the Sandwich Islands—today known as Hawaii. “Their eyes were continually flying from object to object ...

The story of Capt. James Cook’s third voyage has all the elements of a Greek tragedy — hubris, good intentions gone awry, fatal error. The English sea captain, an ...

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook ... his memorial in Hawaii is routinely vandalized. In 2021, a statue of Cook in Victoria ...

His book is The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. Ken Tucker reviews Beyoncé's album Cowboy Carter.

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 ...

Should they encounter the British captain James Cook, Franklin wrote, not only were they to leave him unmolested, but they should also “treat the said Captain Cook and his people with all ...