James Cook
Show notes
James Cook learned his seamanship carrying coal along the English coast before naval service and painstaking surveys opened a route to command. This Compact Biographies episode follows his life from Yorkshire and Newfoundland to three Pacific expeditions, exploring the science behind the voyages, Tupaia's essential contribution, the charting of New Zealand and Australia's eastern coast, and the search for a southern continent. Alongside the achievements are long family separations, fatal encounters and imperial ambitions. We follow Cook's final expedition to Hawai'i and consider how an exceptional navigator became both a celebrated national figure and a contested symbol of empire.
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