Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.

In August 1768, under the command of then-Lieutenant James Cook, HMS Endeavour and her crew ... crown and secure any other territories they found along the way which could be useful to the Empire. The ...

The spears were among 40 recorded as being taken onto Captain Cook's ship, the Endeavour, in 1770 ... the Australian Research Council last year found there were at least 39,000 Indigenous ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery which would push the borders of the British Empire to the ends of the earth.