The official artists who accompanied famed explorer Captain Cook on his eighteenth-century Pacific voyages balanced art, science, and documentation. British explorer, navigator, ...

View ANDERSON (GEORGE WILLIAM) New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority... [an] Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third ...

A rare panoramic wallpaper depicting scenes from Captain Cook’s Pacific voyages has been purchased by Te Papa for the national art collection. Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique is a French-made ...

The Art Gallery of NSW’s Under the stars deserves some kind of award as the most oblique show about Cook ever conceived. Captain James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, 1776. Credit: National ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago Captain James Cook set sail on a voyage that changed the world. WILLIAM COOK (no relation) explores The British Library’s new anniversary exhibition, which ...

Despite my aversion to Cook and his statue, I admire his pluck in sailing more than 200,000 miles on three long voyages in small retrofitted coal carriers and surviving perilous conditions.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Hundreds of books have been written about James Cook (1728-79), the Yorkshire stableboy and grocer's apprentice who became the ...

It’s 30 years since one of greatest discoveries in the history of Irish auctions. In early 1987, a London art dealer sold a painting for more than £600,000 that he’d bought a few months ...

The Three Voyages Of Captain Cook Ep. 1/3 - To mark the 250th anniversary of the first voyage of Captain Cook, Radio 4 Extra looks back at his three great adventures.

English explorer Captain James Cook circa 1770. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) On this day 250 years ago, Captain James Cook was about to leave the island of Tahiti in search of a lost continent ...

Larry Mantle talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz about his new book Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Henry Holt). Horwitz details ...