British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and explorer James Cook, known best as Captain Cook, was one of the most important explorers of the Enlightenment period, sailing over 200,000 miles on three ...

When HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure set sail from Plymouth, England, in 1772, the ships were stocked for a long and grueling journey into the unknown. Provisions included 60,000 tons of biscuit, ...

The mission was ambitious and dangerous: to explore new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations and, in the captain's own words, go "farther than any other man has been before me." This was ...

blue cloth stamped in gilt, larger portfolio in matching blue cloth ...

A collection of shells saved from a skip and thought to include specimens from Captain Cook’s third voyage will go on display in Northumberland, English Heritage said. Footage released by English ...

James Cook’s first voyage circumnavigated the globe in the ship Endeavour, and gave scientific members of the expedition an opportunity to collect specimens from previously unexplored habitats.

“BETTER late than never” may be said of the book the title of which is given above. It is a curious fact that the scientific results of several of the most important and most costly voyages of ...

This retelling of Captain Cook’s death and the merging of two cultures is a trove of miraculously preserved wonders – but beware of the shark-toothed club!

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook; By Hampton Side; Doubleday; 432 pp., $35.00 Tales of Cook’s exploits have fallen out of favor.

THE first part of this work was noticed in NATURE, lxii. p. 547, October 1900, to which we may refer for explanations of its scope and character, as well as for some criticisms of the nomenclature and ...