It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James ... map, creating detailed diagrams of the places he was the first European to discover, including New Zealand, Australia, the Cook ...

A few months ago, we showed you Colin Hazlehurst’s excellent tours of James Cook exploring New ... This time his presentation covers Cook’s exploration of Australia from April 18 – August ...

A talk in celebration of World Oceans Day will present a modern perspective of Captain James Cook. Hampton Sides, a historian ...

James Cook is one of the most prominent figures of the Age of Exploration. The captain explored ... The skilled cartographer also created accurate maps of the landmasses and recorded detailed ...

Captain James ... exploration, interest in the stars, interest in inventions, there was all kinds of work going on ...

The English explorer James Cook, circa 1765.Credit ... Sides, the author of several books on war and exploration, makes a symbolic pageant of his own of Cook’s last voyage, finding in it ...

The story of Capt. James Cook’s third voyage has all the elements of a Greek tragedy — hubris, good intentions gone awry, fatal error. The English sea captain, an ...