Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in ... sailing alongside Captain Charles Clerke on the HMS Discovery. Cook was accompanied by the naturalists Johann Reinhold Forster and ...

And the commander of that ship, James Cook, is among the legendary sailors and celebrities to have visited Madeira itself, ...

In August 1768, under the command of then-Lieutenant James Cook, HMS Endeavour and her crew set sail for Tahiti ... The success and scale of discovery recorded by Banks's group set a precedent for ...

A medal marking Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery in 1772 has sold for ... The medal has the two ships commissioned for the voyage - HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure - and the ...

James Cook in Canada ... and the Sandwich Islands. Captain Cook, Public Arcives of Canada Towards the end of his journeys, just after his discovery of the Hawaiian Islands, he headed towards ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook ... and the Discovery. They left England in July 1776. In addition to Cook’s story, other narratives ...

The new coin features the HMS Resolution, the ship that was captained by James Cook. The year 2020 marks the bicentenary of the reign of George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king. During his ...

I first encountered Tupaia while researching Captain Samuel Wallis and the European discovery of Tahiti, and the subsequent voyages of James Cook and William Bligh ... as to describe Tupaia as a ...