The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook; By Hampton Side; Doubleday; 432 pp., $35.00 Tales of Cook’s exploits have fallen out of favor.

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. He set out to find a westward ocean passage from Europe to Asia but instead, with the ...

Dr Frances McIntosh, of English Heritage, with items from the 18th-century shell collection - Phil Wilkinson/English Heritage/PA Shells collected by Captain Cook’s crew were “miraculously” saved from ...

When HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure set sail from Plymouth, England, in 1772, the ships were stocked for a long and grueling journey into the unknown. Provisions included 60,000 tons of biscuit, ...

"A lot of things started going wrong from the very beginning," historian Hampton Sides says of Cook's last voyage, which ended in the British... 'The Wide Wide Sea' revisits Capt. James Cook's fateful ...

"A lot of things started going wrong from the very beginning," historian Hampton Sides says of Cook's last voyage, which ended in the British explorer's violent death on the island of Hawaii in 1779.

“The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook” by Hampton Sides, Doubleday, 432 pages, $35. Hampton Sides is one of America’s foremost ...

A collection of shells saved from a skip and thought to include specimens from Captain Cook’s third voyage will go on display in Northumberland, English Heritage said. Footage released by English ...

In the late 1700s, a woman collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world. The collection was believed to be lost for decades, until they were saved from the garbage in the 1980s. In the ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Shells from Captain James Cook’s final voyage were thought lost, but it turns out ...

"Edited from the original manuscripts by J.C. Beaglehole with the assistance of J.A. Williamson, J.W. Davidson, and R.A. Skelton." Vol. 4 has imprint: London : The ...