Captain Cook's enduring claim to fame is that he redrew the map of the world in three extraordinary voyages over the Pacific, north and south. The news that reached London in 1780 of his death on a ...

There I was, folding laundry, half-listening to the tail end of a radio interview. My attention certainly perked up as the author described how the subject of his biography had died. "He'd been under ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why did a tranquil island in the Pacific Ocean suddenly become the scene for the brutal killing of English explorer Capt. James ...

The book, "The Wide Wide Sea," explores the final voyage and death of the English explorer. The author is the final speaker in the 2026 Nonfiction Author Series, a fundraiser for the Collier County ...

Why did a tranquil island in the Pacific Ocean suddenly become the scene for the brutal killing of English explorer Capt. James Cook on a February day in 1779? Cook, after all, was known as a ...