Part 1. Setting out. 'My little travelling companion': childhood and Russia 1754-1766

'We are almost Englishmen': early years in England 1766-1772

Part 2.: Discoveries. Resolution voyage. Antarctica: 13 July 1772-February 1773

Resolution voyage. New Zealand (Aotearoa): 17 March-7 June 1773

Resolution voyage. Society Islands: 16 August-17 September 1773

Resolution voyage. Tonga: 18 September-29 October 1773

Resolution voyage. New Zealand (Aotearoa) and Antarctica: 3 November 1773-end of February 1774

Resolution voyage. Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and Society Islands: 11 March-4 June 1774

Resolution voyage. Tanna: 5-20 August 1774

Resolution voyage. New Caledonia, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Tierra del Fuego and Cape Town: 4 September 1774-27 April 1775

Part 3. Ambitions. 'Great expectations'. Return to England: 1775-1777

'A magnificent young man'. Trials and tribulations: 1777-1779

'I am far too restricted for my way of thinking'. Kassel: 1780-1784

'The decision, then, is made, and all that is wanting is the subject'. In search of a wife: 1784

'Good heavens, the way I'm celebrated here shouldn't be allowed'. Detours to Vilnius: 1784-1785

'A tremendous number of frozen heads'. Exiled in Vilnius: 1785-1786

Part 4. Revolutions. 'So, I wait for better times'. Upheavals: 1787-1788

'Freedom, freedom, boundless freedom in everything'. Mainz: 1788-1790

'As if I carry the world within me'. Travels: 1790

'As empty as a hollowed-out pumpkin'. Troubles: 1791-1792

'The final hour of tyranny has come'. Mainz Republic: 1792-1793

'What happens, must happen'. Paris: 1793-1794.