Captain Cook: master of the seas

A Yorkshire apprenticeship

The Seven Years War

Charting Newfoundland

The challenge of the Pacific

First contacts with Tahiti

The Isle of Cythera

Peril in Australasia

Homeward bound

Antarctica

Tongans and Maoris

Mastering the Pacific

Lost horizon : the great southern continent

The last voyage

Tahiti : the final phase

Quest for illusion : the Northwest Passage

Hawaiian nightmare

Tragedy on Kealakekua Beach

Conclusion.