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 ...

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 ...

It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook ... "The Wide Wide Sea," documenting Cook's final and fateful voyage. "He had three voyages around the world; each one was monumental ...

English explorer Captain James Cook (1728 – 1779 ... scurvy killed nearly 2 million European sailors. Yet on his second voyage, which lasted for three years, not even one of Cook’s men ...

Her second novel, “Duet for One,” is ... “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage.

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It includes shells gathered on Captain James Cook's final voyage, now on display at a museum in Northumberland. SCHMITZ: The shells were previously believed to be lost until the 1980s, when John ...

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 that a lecturer had pulled them from a dumpster 40 ...

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 ...

UNTIL RECENTLY Captain James Cook was not a particularly controversial ... Acting under Admiralty orders, he undertook three pioneering voyages in the Pacific between 1768 and 1779.

For hardware, captain James ... a significant event. Cook’s first voyage, after all, had circumnavigated the globe; great things were expected for the sequel. Second, as Cook wrote in his ...