Captain Cook rediscovered: voyaging to the icy latitudes

Part 1: Prequels. The North Sea and Canada

The Republic of Letters

The South Pacific

Part 2: A Frozen World. Toward the South Pole

The Limit of Ambition

Temporizing in the Tropics

Cook and Forster, On Ice

Part 3: A Third Voyage. An Ancient Quest, A New Mission

Southern Staging Grounds

Terra Borealis

Blink

Northern Interlude

Intimations of Mortality

Part 4: Sequels. Springtime in Kamchatka

Diminishing Returns

Seeding the Fur Trade on the Voyage Home.