Sailing the southern Pacific Ocean in 1769, two of history’s greatest navigators drafted a remarkable map. One was the British explorer Captain James Cook.The other was Tupaia, an aristocratic ...

The controversial legacy of Captain James Cook 06:18. On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline.

On August 26, 1768, explorer James Cook set off from England on the HMS Endeavour for a voyage of discovery to the great Pacific Ocean and the fabled lands therein.

In the 250 years since he set sail from Plymouth, readings of James Cook’s three maritime expeditions have zigzagged as wildly as the drunken-looking course of his vessels around the islands of ...

THE WIDE WIDE SEA: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. By Hampton Sides. Doubleday. 432 pages. $35. Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South ...

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. He set out to find a westward ocean passage from Europe to Asia but instead ...

Entering the Pacific. Lieutenant James Cook rounded Cape Horn, entering the Pacific in his ship Endeavour, in January 1769.It was the beginning of his three great voyages of scientific exploration ...

The bestselling author of "Ghost Soldiers," "In the Kingdom of Ice" and "On Desperate Ground," returns with the story of Captain James Cook, and an account of his final, fatal voyage of exploration.

The earliest major account of Cook’s first Pacific expedition was one of the most popular publications of the 18th century. But Sides isn’t just interested in retelling an adventure tale.

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. He set out to find a westward ocean passage from Europe to Asia but instead ...

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. In recent decades, Cook has been vilified by some scholars and cultural ...