Dr Frances McIntosh, of English Heritage, with items from the 18th-century shell collection - Phil Wilkinson/English Heritage/PA Shells collected by Captain Cook’s crew were “miraculously” saved from ...

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. He set out to find a westward ocean passage from Europe to Asia but instead, with the ...

"A lot of things started going wrong from the very beginning," historian Hampton Sides says of Cook's last voyage, which ended in the British... 'The Wide Wide Sea' revisits Capt. James Cook's fateful ...

“The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook” by Hampton Sides, Doubleday, 432 pages, $35. Hampton Sides is one of America’s foremost ...

"A lot of things started going wrong from the very beginning," historian Hampton Sides says of Cook's last voyage, which ended in the British explorer's violent death on the island of Hawaii in 1779.

When HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure set sail from Plymouth, England, in 1772, the ships were stocked for a long and grueling journey into the unknown. Provisions included 60,000 tons of biscuit, ...

A collection of shells saved from a skip and thought to include specimens from Captain Cook’s third voyage will go on display in Northumberland, English Heritage said. Footage released by English ...

A "globally important" shell collection from the 18th century, thought to have been lost for more than 40 years, has resurfaced. The collection contains more than 200 specimens—among them rare ...

In the late 1700s, a woman named Bridget Atkinson collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world without ever leaving her village in the rural English county of Cumberland. FRANCES ...

"Edited from the original manuscripts by J.C. Beaglehole with the assistance of J.A. Williamson, J.W. Davidson, and R.A. Skelton." Vol. 4 has imprint: London : The ...

In the late 1700s, a woman collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world. The collection was believed to be lost for decades, until they were saved from the garbage in the 1980s. In the ...