3/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by Hampton Sides (Author)
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3/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by Hampton Sides (Author)
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:05.9 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized |
| 0:10.2 | tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. |
| 0:25.6 | Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us. |
| 0:28.0 | P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. This is CBSi on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Hampton Sides is here. His new book is The |
| 0:38.5 | Wide Sea. Imperial Ambition First Contact and the fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. |
| 0:45.0 | We're now at sea heading south to the Cape of Good Hope. |
| 0:49.0 | James Cook is in a hurry the whole time. Waste not a moment. Why? He wants to find the |
| 0:56.4 | Northwest Passage. He wants the reward. He wants to cap an already |
| 1:00.1 | unbelievable amount of achievement in the whole world. Everybody knows James Cook. |
| 1:05.9 | He's a household name. He wants to cap it by finding the shortest route between Europe and |
| 1:11.9 | the wonders of Asia. |
| 1:13.2 | He wants to be the discovery himself, and he wants to get there quickly. |
| 1:17.6 | He's headed to the Cape of Good Hope, however, there is very nearly the end of the voyage as they avoid an |
| 1:25.8 | underwater obstacle just barely and Hampton you observe at this point that the |
| 1:32.2 | crew that had been with James Cook before I and Hampton you observe at this point that the |
| 1:32.8 | crew that had been with James Cook before either on the first and second or one of |
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