Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Things A Fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden. My name is Anna Toshinsky and I'm sitting

here with James Arkin and Drew Hunter Murray and this week we are with Ed Brooke Hitching,

our fellow QI Elf who has just written a new book, right?

Yes, it's called The Golden Atlas, a history of exploration. Just filled with that kind

of quirky QI style facts.

Yes, it is a really beautiful looking book full of amazing looking kind of maps and little

factoids about exploration. Get it now, go to Ed's Twitter feed or any book show.

After the show. After the show, sorry, get it in, you know, however long it takes to listen

to this. It's available in any book shop or online and for now, once again, we're gathered

here with our four favourite facts from the last seven days in no particular order, here

we go.

Starting with you, Ed.

So my fact is the most experienced sailor of all Captain Cook's first voyage was a goat.

But yes, she previously sailed around the world.

So when you say she was experienced, she didn't do any sailing, presumably. She was just

on milk provision.

Yeah, I don't think she was too, like, nifty with the ropes, if that's what you need.

But yeah, she'd survived a global, like a circumnavigation, you know, I think she'd

survive three shipwrecks as well.

Wow.

That's pretty amazing.

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