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 ...
Native boats gather around the Resolution and Discovery in Alaska’s glacier-rimmed Prince William Sound. (Engraving, after Webber’s sketch, published in 1784 in A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Author’s ...
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 ...
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