On Valentine’s Day, 1779, Captain James Cook invited Hawaii’s King Kalani‘ōpu‘u to visit his ship, the Resolution. Cook and the King were on friendly terms, but, on this particular day, Cook planned ...
The first printed portrait of James Cook in 1759. Cook's secret instructions to find ‘Terra Incognita’. A teenage James Cook first went to Staithes (above) to work as a shop hand. A 1756 map by French ...