58. Captain Cook Sets Sail, Whitby, North Yorkshire.
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re setting sail on a legendary voyage of exploration with the greatest navigator ever to come out of the British Isles - Captain James Cook.
We follow James from the beginning of his adventure, when he leaves his job as a grocers lad in Staithes and travels to the hauntingly beautiful port of Whitby to pursue his dreams of a life a sea. It’s here, as a merchant seaman transporting coal up and down the eastern seaboard that he learns his trade. His ambition, dedication and yearning for adventure drive him to sign up and join the Royal Navy where he soon rises through the ranks to become captain of the valiant vessel, HMS Endeavour. Aboard the ship he would make famous he sets off on a number of extraordinary voyages of discovery that would help shape the future of the British Isles and the direction this great seafaring nation would present to the world.
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| 0:53.8 | They ate part of his body, |
| 1:01.8 | and forever after some of Cook's bones were kept in a bowl as a kind of an offering to their gods. |
| 1:10.0 | In this podcast we're climbing on the shoulders of a hero who helped us see the world. |
| 1:17.0 | As a young lady came to Whitby to learn the craft that would make him famous, studying mathematics, navigation, astronomy, |
| 1:26.1 | as he sailed up and down the eastern seaboard, delivering coal between the rivers |
| 1:29.8 | time and Thames. Ambicious and adventurous he joined the Royal Navy, determined as he said |
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