It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook ... of the places he was the first European to discover, including New Zealand, Australia, the Cook Islands (which still bear ...

James Cook’s third voyage has all the elements of a Greek ... In this episode we hear from the fire captain who first suspected him—and from Orr himself. Madison McGhee is joined by legendary ...

Bestseller Sides (On Desperate Ground) recreates in this propulsive account the final expedition of Captain James Cook (1728–1779 ... that “on his final voyage something wasn’t quite ...

Dan tells the extraordinary tale of Captain James Cook. Born a labourer's son, he would rise to become one of history's ...

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.

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 ...

“The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook” by Hampton Sides, Doubleday, 432 pages, $35. Hampton Sides is one of America’s ...

For hardware, captain James Cook was to test out a new longitudinal ... First, it was meant to record a significant event. Cook’s first voyage, after all, had circumnavigated the globe; great ...

THE WIDE WIDE SEA: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, by Hampton Sides In January 1779, when the British explorer James Cook sailed into a ...

UNTIL RECENTLY Captain James ... Cook has joined Edward Colston and Cecil Rhodes as a focal point for anti-colonialist ire. Yet Cook was neither a slave trader nor much of an imperialist. He was ...

A medal marking Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery in 1772 has sold ... to future explorers that Captain Cook had been the first to reach unexplored lands and also to introduce ...