Captain Cook's First Voyage
You're Dead to Me
Ye Topi's Death
Cook's descendants are trying to repatriate the body in an active attempts to try and locate precisely where he was buried. Cook actually said that he wanted to see the ocean before he died, cause he knew he was going to die away from ratea. The transit of venus mission has not gone well, but the admiralty of the royal navy is still wanting to champion british imperial sea power. So they're actiing in a commission a doctor, john hawksworth, who is a literary editor, to write an account of the voyages based on cooks and bankers journals. It sells in good numbers, but there's a big old back lash, isn't it
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