What Christopher Columbus did for America, Captain James Cook did for the Pacific—with all the baggage that entails. A restless explorer who didn’t know when to stop, Cook paid a high price for his ...

Beneath the sprawling, gnarled branches of a kiawe tree in Hawaii's pristine Kealakekua Bay, an X lies carved into an otherwise unassuming rock face. But there's no buried treasure to be found here.

"This new encyclopaedia aims to provide answers on all aspects of the life and voyages of Captain James Cook, and the people, places, events and ships associated with the great explorer. Researched ...

Debate rages on who showed up on the islands after the first Polynesians landed. Japanese fishermen? Spanish shipwreck ...

"To accompany the exhibition 'Captain James Cook, navigator'."-- Pref., p. 7.