May explores the stories of Christopher Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain James Cook in a new Channel 5 series.

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It was a British ship that was best known for its first voyage (1769-71) with James Cook as captain. On that voyage, Cook brought Endeavour to Tahiti to watch the transit of Venus across the sun.

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Edited by Ray Bonnell from a collection of letters and writings from his wife’s grandmother Margaret Miller, the book offers ...

This was an historic voyage across oceans to the other side ... the chosen spot for a new life and new era of discovery. The First Fleet enters Port Jackson Some years earlier Captain James Cook had ...

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Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied Captain Cook on HMS Endeavour’s voyage to the South ... Banks sent the first Kew collectors around the world, including Francis Masson, Allan Cunningham and James ...

But his return voyage had been delayed ... the English established their first permanent beachhead in the Americas, a hundred miles to the north on the James River, in what is now Virginia.

National Geographic has released the trailer and key art for the mouthwatering new series No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski.