4/8: 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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4/8: 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)
https://www.amazon.com/Wide-Sea-Imperial-Ambition-Contact/dp/0385544766/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xvSnWMwZwkRk3nB_oha-u7YL0k9kTC4voIQCoSWDz75eZXBRk_ZvRqUZ_P6pMaemKHJ8AhEdiyCpLrikQsp9iSIHNpX0v0n71kJqmCUW1VujrRMuDnenOyoWd5NtaDroImV4hSJ-hXf41L0HQmBS2q4Ws_PUqdVAXpvxskDgbzkPGE54c4xCqXxznyoRsahmmC7zXsNKkmipQCOKWZt728zHdG1ntVV4xSjkKJdX0v4.qQvWTGgLh4U5mw9t7ELNeecNVMkHQl35VNFyULPNX4g&qid=1720822146&sr=8-1
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him him sounds like an elephant with a chest infection |
| 0:16.0 | Well they call him a dreamer and now they're right all aboard mister I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piando Ferries, there is another way. |
| 0:29.0 | Hemp and sides is wondrous new book I recommend to everyone who's restless 250 years ago, |
| 0:35.8 | this is the time to read the book. |
| 0:38.4 | As 250 years ago, traveling the world was extremely perilous. In this instance, however, Cook is bearing for Tahiti, a well-known |
| 0:47.1 | place called Aphrodite's Island. This is now August of 1777. |
| 0:53.0 | They've been at sea for more than a year. |
| 0:55.0 | They called the island they land on King George the Third Island. |
| 0:58.0 | What are they expecting? Why are they excited, Hampton? |
| 1:01.0 | Everybody by this point had heard about how lovely Tahiti is. |
| 1:05.0 | Beautiful landscape, beautiful weather, beautiful seas, beautiful women who are quite |
| 1:11.5 | willing and a great place to get some R&R. |
| 1:16.0 | And you know I would say a lot of the young man on this voyage has signed on to it |
| 1:20.0 | expressly for that purpose to get to Tahiti and see if the stories are true. |
| 1:25.0 | They get to Tahiti and yes, the stories prove to be very much true and |
| 1:31.0 | they are you know unbelievably well received and they eat like |
| 1:37.0 | kings and the women are beautiful and there's a lot of carrying on on the ship on the shore in the jungles and it's a wonderful |
| 1:48.4 | experience for for the young man now but katikook is there for a very different reason and that is to deposit |
| 1:56.1 | this young man and my the Polynesian in his home islands and to find a home for him |
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