Captain Cook: History’s Greatest Explorer (TRIH ep 380, part 1)
1759 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook introduce a multi-episode focus on Captain James Cook’s first Pacific voyage. They trace Cook’s humble Yorkshire origins, apprenticeship, skill as a navigator and chartmaker, and rapid rise in the Royal Navy, including his surveying work on the St. Lawrence and Newfoundland.
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