James Cook is considered one of the greatest navigators and explorers of all time. A British naval captain, navigator, and ...

In recent years, the voyages of Captain James Cook have come under increasing attack as part of a larger reassessment of the legacy of empire. Cook was an explorer and a mapmaker, not a conqueror ...

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.

Book Review The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook By Hampton Sides Doubleday: 432 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site ...

DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. And we're speaking with historian Hampton Sides. His new book is a gripping account of an 18th-century, round-the-world sea voyage led by British Captain James Cook.

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Voyage of Captain James Cook Hampton Sides. Doubleday, $35 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-54476-4 ...

It includes shells gathered on Captain James Cook's final voyage, now on display at a museum in Northumberland.

The medal had two functions. First, it was meant to record a significant event. Cook’s first voyage, after all, had circumnavigated the globe; great things were expected for the sequel. Second ...

“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 ...

Description 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 ...