The tale of James Cook sailing the Endeavour into Botany Bay is familiar to most Australians. But 250 years on, the descendants of the Aboriginal people who first spotted the English explorer's ...

Antiques Roadshow expert Gordon Foster met with one of Captain James Cook's descendants who brought two silver spoons from the explorer's travels onto the BBC programme. During the latest episode ...

On Valentine’s Day, 1779, Captain James Cook invited Hawaii’s King Kalani ... The expectation was that he would settle down, enjoy his sinecure, and finally spend some time with his family.

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage. ... forcing his family to take refuge in Tahiti. In 1767, ...

In 1779, the captain decided to wait out the winter in the Hawaiian Islands. Tensions escalated, and the Hawaiians ultimately killed Cook after he tried to kidnap their king.