The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum faces closure ... Cook’s first round-the-world voyage left England in 1768, bound for Tahiti. He commanded a ship called the HMS Endeavour, which reportedly ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final ... At Moorea, 12 miles from Tahiti, Cook created a “swinging bridge” from ropes to ...

I first encountered Tupaia while researching Captain Samuel Wallis and the European discovery of Tahiti, and the subsequent voyages of James Cook and William Bligh,' Anne explains. 'In both Wallis's ...