Halcyon leucocephala, grey-headed kingfisher. Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to explore the southern seas, 1772-75. Captain James Cook's ...

Shells from Captain James Cook’s final voyage were thought lost, but it turns out that a lecturer had pulled them from a dumpster 40 years ago. The collection, with roughly 200 specimens from ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery which would push the borders of the British Empire to the ends of the earth.

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...

Captain James Cook was the last explorer active during ... He will also get to taste all the ship’s alcohol. On his second voyage, Cook lent a hand in solving the greatest navigational puzzle ...