Traces the life and worldwide travels of the 18th-century English explorer Captain James Cook.

For Mark Twain, it was love at first landfall. Samuel Clemens first encountered the Bermuda Islands in 1867 on a return voyage from the Holy Land and found them

The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals -- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below to the first hardy seeds th

Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from t

Discusses travellers such as Sir Joseph Banks, Heinrich Barth, Henry Walter Bates, George Bentham, Margaret Brooke, Hugh Clapperton, Captain James Cook, Charles