It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook ... "Whatever you think about Cook, he's certainly in the pantheon of the greatest explorers of all time," said writer Hampton ...

Dan tells the extraordinary tale of Captain James Cook. Born a labourer's son, he would rise to become one of history's ...

His name is synonymous with Whitby and he became ... in the 1700s. Captain James Cook and his journeys will be the focal ...

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook ... natives. Cook did his level best to limit it, and by all accounts, he remained faithful ...

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

On Valentine’s Day, 1779, Captain James ... his death, Cook was Britain’s most celebrated explorer. In the course of three epic voyages—the last one, admittedly, unfinished—he had mapped ...

When he was young ... with Cook’s intentions and culpability, as Cook did himself. The Captain James Cook episode of James May’s Great Explorers will air on Thursday, February 27, 2025 ...

UNTIL RECENTLY Captain James Cook was not a particularly controversial figure. But in January a statue of the 18th-century British explorer was ... of an imperialist. He was, first and foremost ...

The English explorer ... Captain James Cook, by Hampton Sides In January 1779, when the British explorer James Cook sailed into a volcanic bay known by Hawaiians as “the Pathway of the Gods ...

Sides’ latest book, “The Wide Wide Sea,” depicts the fatal third voyage of 18th Century British naval captain James ... explorers. He was genuinely curious about them.” Sides described ...