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May explores the stories of Christopher Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain James Cook in a new Channel 5 series.

It was a British ship that was best known for its first voyage (1769-71) with James Cook as captain. On that voyage, Cook brought Endeavour to Tahiti to watch the transit of Venus across the sun.

9 THE WIDE WIDE SEA (Doubleday, $35). By Hampton Sides. An account of the explorer Captain James Cook’s ill-fated final voyage. 10 THE LET THEM THEORY (Hay House, $29.99). By Mel Robbins.

This was an historic voyage across oceans to the other side of the world ... The previous accounts by the navigator Captain James Cook had somewhat misled the crew into believing this would be a ...

Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other ...

Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied Captain Cook on HMS Endeavour’s voyage to the South Pacific (1768-1771 ... Allan Cunningham and James Bowie. Their love of plants and willingness to explore ...

But his return voyage had been delayed again and ... a hundred miles to the north on the James River, in what is now Virginia. Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from ...

Practical Joke colt went from maiden winner to stakes winner and earned 20 qualifying points toward eligibility for the ...

English naval Captain James Cook sailed the world's oceans in the 1700s. Cook's crews were famously brutal to the Indigenous people of the lands where their ship docked. Australia Day, celebrated ...