He first set sail to the New World at the age of 19 ... Cook’s voyages helped guide generations of explorers and provided the ...

We love maps. From ancient scribbles on parchment to the artistically drawn atlases of explorers, maps have given us ...

Urging their countrymen to join in the race for the colonization of the New World were two men, an uncle and his nephew, each named Richard Hakluyt. In a number of popular pamphlets they made the ...