Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.

During Charles Darwin's 1831–6 voyage on the Beagle, his on-board library included 'Cook's voyages' (the edition is not specified). This illustrated 1821 edition, in seven volumes, is representative ...

Nothing feeds our sense of wonder quite like stories of exploration. Whether they are cocksure astronauts or stoic arctic ...

Farther Than Any Man - The attempt to catalog the Pacific was made a little tricky by the nature of European exploration.

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 ...

The majority of specimens in this collection date from the early-to-mid 1800s through to the mid-to-late 1900s, though the oldest skins date back to Captain James Cook’s voyages in the mid-to-late ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage. Cook is a controversial historical figure, especially in light of increasing ...