Bestseller Sides (On Desperate Ground) recreates in this propulsive account the final expedition of Captain James Cook (1728–1779), which culminated with his murder by native Hawaiians.

In the 18th century, Captain James Cook undertook a secret state mission given to him by King George II himself. Almost 200 years later, secret secrets continued to wreak havoc in the height of ...

Based on Captain James Cook's three voyages. It was on his first voyage, in 1770 (while in the South Pacific region to observe the transit of Venus), that Captain Cook discovered the east coast of ...

THE consideration of Cook as the ‘physician’ rather than the astronomer, surveyor and explorer well deserves this pleasant story. It is the central theme, which the author is well qualified to ...

Captain James Cook and his journeys will be the focal point in a Channel 5 episode of James May’s Great Explorers on Thursday night (February 27) at 9pm. The former Top Gear presenter will also ...

A bronze statue of Captain James Cook has been returned to its spot in Fitzroy Gardens close to a year after it was toppled in an act of vandalism. The cost to repair the damage and return the ...

Portrait of Mrs Elizabeth Batts Cook, widow of Captain James Cook, by William Henderson, dated 1830. Public domain image At 17 he was apprenticed to a shopkeeper in Staithes, but after 18 months ...

With his new book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, best-selling ... countless books and movies, is now a divisive figure ...

Captain James Cook arrived in Botany Bay in 1770 while Captain Arthur Phillip arrived with the First Fleet in 1788, which is the official state date of Australia’s colonial period. A trailer for ...