Volumes 3 and 4 cover Cook's second voyage (1772–5), a key objective of which was to look for a continent in the Southern Ocean. The explorers sailed to 71 degrees south, within the Antarctic Circle, ...

Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in ... are part of a collection of illustrations produced during and after the voyage, between 1773 and 1784. Of the three artists, only ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage. Cook is a ... s prizewinning debut novel, “Three Muses,” was published in ...

A medal from Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery is due to be auctioned and could fetch up to £3,000. The medal was commissioned by famous botanist Sir Joseph Banks and paid for by ...