On October 6, 1769, a sailor on Captain James Cook’s research vessel, the Endeavour, serendipitously earned himself a gallon of rum. He had just spotted the east coast of New Zealand, and his ...
Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy. Glyn Williams investigates the standards he set in maritime exploration. The three major voyages of ...
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