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.

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage. Cook is a ... elusive Northwest Passage. His third expedition consisted of 180 ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery ... In just over a decade he would add one third to the map of the known world.