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A gripping account of Captain Cook’s final voyage
Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage. Cook is a ... north to Alaska and beyond, and back to Hawaii. Just repairing and ...
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The Cook Voyages - HMS Endeavour, HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery
Halcyon leucocephala, grey-headed kingfisher. Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to explore the southern seas, 1772-75. Captain James Cook's ...
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Captain Cook: The gravity of the dangers faced by Captain Cook on his historic voyage on the seas
James Cook’s first voyage of exploration which saw him become the first European to lay eyes on Australia took nearly three years. Fast forward over three centuries and NASA is talking about ...
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Restless Genes
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 ...