James May shares a home with Sarah in the sought-after London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The pair have made their ...

The first encounters between the native peoples of Canada and the Europeans took place on the East Coast, and it wasn't until many years later that natives on the West Coast began meeting the ...

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

On the 17th of January 1775, English Captain James ... Cook began mapping the coastline, but did not bring his ship close into the island due to the dangerous conditions. Hopeful that he had ...

His memorials have been the focus of Australia Day protests in recent years but Captain James Cook's life and death show he was no xenophobe, writes DAVID ELLERY.

Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to explore ... he became over whelmed by the volume of new specimens being discovered, and could only sketch and ...

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney ... this act of vandalism of the heritage Captain Cook statue,” he said. "Vandalism has no place in public discussion.

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern ... a similar incident in February last year. Cook arrived in Sydney Cove in 1770 where he and his crew landed at Botany Bay, opening up ...