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THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK
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James Cook rose to become the leader of the first voyage of discovery, sponsored by the Admiralty and the Royal Society.
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PROGRAMME 1: 'FURTHER THAN ANY OTHER MAN'.
Born in 1728, son of a farm labourer in Yorkshire, it's extraordinary that James Cook rose to become the leader of the first voyage of discovery, sponsored by the Admiralty and the Royal Society in 1768. This became a three year voyage that led to the charting of unknown territory - the whole of what we now know of as New Zealand, and the eastern coast of Australia.
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Captain James Cook. This portrait is courtesy of |
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CAPTAIN COOK PAGES |
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Go to 1 - Further Than Any Man homepage
Go to 2 - Terra Australis Incognito
Go to 3 - This Melancholy Affair
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PRESENTER |
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| DR NIGEL RIGBY |
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Nigel Rigby is Head of Research at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He joined the Museum in 1996 as a research fellow on the Wolfson Gallery of Trade and Empire. Between 1991 and 1994 he did a PhD at the University of Kent on European writing about the Pacific.
Together with Pieter van der Merwe, a colleague at the Museum, he has written Captain Cook in the Pacific, which will be published at the end of October 2002. He has also co-edited Modernism and Empire (Manchester, 2000) and The Worlds of the East India Company (Woodbridge, 2002).
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Listen to - introduction