Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final ... At Moorea, 12 miles from Tahiti, Cook created a “swinging bridge” from ropes to ...

I first encountered Tupaia while researching Captain Samuel Wallis and the European discovery of Tahiti, and the subsequent voyages of James Cook and William Bligh,' Anne explains. 'In both Wallis's ...

A rare medal from Captain Cook's second voyage of discovery has ... that Cook and his crews visited across the Pacific, including Tahiti, Easter Island, and New Zealand. They were designed to ...