A medal from Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery is due to be auctioned and could fetch up to £3,000. The medal was commissioned by famous botanist Sir Joseph Banks and paid for by ...

Auctioneers are expecting a lot of interest in the medal A medal from Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery is due to be auctioned and could fetch up to £3,000. The medal was ...

A medal marking Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery in 1772 has sold for £6,500 at auction. Captain Cook was sent as far south as possible to determine if there was any great southern ...

his on-board library included 'Cook's voyages' (the edition is not specified). This illustrated 1821 edition, in seven volumes, is representative of the versions available in the early nineteenth ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook ... When Cook sailed in seven years later on his second Pacific voyage, Mai requested passage ...

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.

The new owners of an exact replica of HMS Endeavour plan to retrace Captain James Cook’s voyage with the ship… before turning ...