Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.
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 ...
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 ...
Late in the third quarter on a fourth-and-goal at the 1-yard line, the Bills went for it as Josh Allen ran an option play, pitching it to running back James Cook, who managed to dodge one would-be ...
On the 17th of January 1775, English Captain James ... first issue commemorates Possession itself and the start of South Georgia’s 250-year journey from obscurity to the modern age. Cook and ...
In 1768, His Majesty's Bark Endeavour set sail from England on a scientific voyage with Lieutenant James Cook. What did the voyage accomplish for science and navigation? What was the impact for this ...