This is CBSI in the world.

I'm John Batchel with Hampton Sides.

His new book is The Wide Wide Sea.

Imperial ambition and first contact of the United Kingdom in the late 18th century,

coterminous with the American Revolution and a lot of other changes going on in Europe, a war that

will last for some years between Spain and France and Britain. But at the same time, there's

discovery at hand, and Captain James Cook has now given the third voyage with his mission

to find the Northwest Passage, somewhere north of what they understand

to be Alaska. The maps are very inexact. Some suggestion that the maps are deliberately

in exact because the Russians are fearful that the Europeans will show up and grab the best

land, the best ports in the northern Pacific.

We're now going to crew the third voyage, thanks to Hampton's research.

The Whitby Cat is what he's going to sail, called Resolution.

First officers are important here.

Charles Clerk will command the discovery. Who is Clark at this time?

What do we need to know about him, Hampton? Well, Clark has been sort of Cook's right-hand man for

his first two voyages, and he was thought that he was going to be the captain of this one

until Cook decided now he was going to be the captain of this one until Cook decided, no,

he was going to come back out of retirement and be the captain of the voyage.

Clark is a season navigator.

He's been around the world numerous times.

He seems to have luck on his side in the sense that he survived many calamities at sea.

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