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THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK
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The world not only looked a very different place after Captain James Cook's three voyages of discovery, but it was looked at differently too.
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PROGRAMME 3: 'THIS MELANCHOLY AFFAIR'
After the astounding success of his first two voyages, few imagined that Captain James Cook would go to sea again. After all, by 1776 he was already 48, no spring chicken.
In his final programme on the great but enigmatic explorer, Dr Nigel Rigby of the National Maritime Museum learns that Cook, born to a farm labourer in Yorkshire, with no private income of his own, was probably motivated by the prize of £20,000 offered to anyone who found the fabled North-West Passage between America and Asia. Such a route would conceivably have cut the journey time between Europe and the west coast of North and South America.
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A portrayal of Cook's death. This image is courtesy of |
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Audio Help
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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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Thursday 9.00-9.45am, rpt 9.30-10.00pm. Listen again online or
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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