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South It’s James Cook’s 285th birthday: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Captainjamescookportrait.jpg We had this book when I was eight: goodreads/book/show/4917266-captain-cook-explores-the-south-seas [Coincidentally, the book’s author Armstrong Sperry, who had himself travelled in the South Pacific, would be 116 today.] I must have read it a dozen times, little realising that within a dozen years I would have a mother-in-law who came from Whitby and whose old uncle had gone to sea from the same harbour where Cook first sailed. M remembers her old great-uncle taking her down to the quay at North Shields and telling her stories of seafaring at the turn of the century. We used to have a model sailing ship he had made – a slender but authentic link with Captain Cook’s distant world. Every time I read the book, I wanted the third voyage to end differently: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zoffany_Death_of_Captain_Cook.jpg But Armstrong Sperry fulfilled his biographical obligation. On Teesside, assisted by Claes Oldenburg, you can travel in your mind with Cook: oldenburgvanbruggen/largescaleprojects/bottleofnotes.htm
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 07:33:54 +0000

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