With this work of 1788, he was the first biographer of Captain James Cook (1728–79), although several ... a fearless explorer and an exemplary British hero. 1. The history of Captain Cook's life ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage. Cook is a controversial historical figure, especially in light of increasing consciousness about ...

Residents of New England and those with British ties are once again in ... renamed—a retrofitted coal ship made famous by Captain James Cook during his 1760s explorations. The ship in question ...

Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth ... The Endeavour’s plant and animal specimens and their associated artwork and documents were once in the British ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery which would push the borders of the British Empire to the ends of the earth.

The statue of Captain James Cook was found covered in paint on Thursday A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook has been vandalised in Melbourne in an apparent protest on the eve of ...

The A$50m (£36.2m/US$68.9m) plans are for Botany Bay in Sydney, the spot where British explorer Captain James Cook first landed in 1770. Australia Treasurer Scott Morrison said it would be "a ...

For hardware, captain James Cook was to test out a new longitudinal ... (Since the Hundred Years War, British monarchs sometimes claimed the French throne, a practiced continued through the ...

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 ...

Downtown hotel featuring rich teak woods of a British sailing ship - 1 mile ... Named for legendary explorer Captain James Cook, who first docked in Anchorage in 1778, the hotel pays tribute ...

James Cook in ... navigator James Cook, who anchored at Ship Cove (now Resolution Cove on Vancouver Island) for a month in 1778. In the 18th century there were few British heroes greater then ...

A medal from Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery is due ... there first and to introduce native inhabitants to the then British monarch - King George III - whose portrait appears ...