Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy. Glyn Williams investigates the standards he set in maritime exploration. The three major voyages of ...

A few weeks ago, the library of Cambridge’s Trinity College (home of the recently defaced Lord Balfour portrait) exhibited four ­Australian fishing spears. They are all that remain from a collection ...

"A lot of things started going wrong from the very beginning," historian Hampton Sides says of Cook's last voyage, which ended in the British explorer's violent death on the island of Hawaii in 1779.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr Frances McIntosh, of English Heritage, with items from the 18th-century shell collection - Phil Wilkinson/English Heritage/PA ...

The end of the story is unexpected and sudden, coming about because of misunderstanding and mistake. Yet it was the right story to finish just as the new year was climbing into the sky. Now, firmly ...

"This publication by Dr. Janet Davidson is very timely as we approach 250 years since James Cook first sighted Aotearoa, New Zealand, in October 1769. The three voyages of Cook in the Pacific were ...

The mission was ambitious and dangerous: to explore new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations and, in the captain's own words, go "farther than any other man has been before me." This was ...

Capt. James Cook, who embarked on his historic Pacific voyage more than 200 years ago, has never been forgotten, yet the British explorer is undergoing something of a rediscovery. Two recent books ...

Stephen Morey is a chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council funded grant for the project 'Howitt & Fison’s anthropology: using new methods to reveal hidden riches.(LP160100192) By now, ...

When HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure set sail from Plymouth, England, in 1772, the ships were stocked for a long and grueling journey into the unknown. Provisions included 60,000 tons of biscuit, ...