English explorer Captain James Cook circa 1770. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) On this day 250 years ago, ... This was the first of Cook’s three voyages, which all lasted for years.

James Cook’s first voyage was part of a secret government mission. Cook never did find the Terra Australis—because it doesn't exist. | Kattigara, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0.

HMS Endeavour, famously captained by James Cook during his Pacific voyage, identified off the coast of Rhode Island, solving ...

"The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook" by Hampton Sides (Doubleday), in Hardcover, Large Print Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio ...

"The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook" by Hampton Sides (Doubleday), in Hardcover, Large Print Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio ...

Sides' book is "The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact And The Fateful Final Voyage Of Captain James Cook." So let's talk a bit about what an overseas voyage was like in the, you ...

Captain James Cook is thought of as an explorer of the South Seas, but a new exhibit at the Anchorage Museum focuses attention on his equally remarkable achievements in the north.

Into these roiling waters wades “The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook” (Doubleday), a new biography by Hampton Sides. Sides, a ...

250 Years Ago, Captain Cook Embarked On First Of Three Voyages. On this day 250 years ago, Captain James Cook was about to leave the island of Tahiti in search of a lost continent known as Terra ...