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The Pacific

In The Wake of Captain Cook

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The Pacific

By: Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
Narrated by: Alan King
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A rich, complex, and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill.

Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the Earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived, and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the Pacific was disconnected from the power and ideas of Europe, Asia and America. In the wake of Cook, everything changed.

The Pacific with Sam Neill is the companion audiobook to the Foxtel documentary series of the same name, in which actor and raconteur Sam Neill takes a deeply personal, present-day voyage to map his own understanding of James Cook, Europe's greatest navigator, and the immense Pacific Ocean itself.

Voyaging on a wide variety on vessels, from container ships to fishing trawlers and sailing boats, Sam crosses the length and breadth of the largest ocean in the world to experience for himself a contemporary journey in Cook's footsteps, engaging the past and present in both modern and ancient cultural practice and peoples.

Fascinating, engaging, fresh and vital - this is history...but not as you know it.

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Eye opening about both the European explorers and the Pacific island and aboriginal communities

Very well read

Fantastic

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Have had on repeat and love it. Definitely listen if interested in the Pacific Islands

Perfect

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Cook and his Pacific voyages ending with his seemingly inevitable death in Hawaii. Also a history of Pacific exploration and its peoples. Excellent narration. Couldn't stop listening.

Riveting account of the exploration of the Pacific

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I was hooked from the very beginning couldn’t stop listening. I am in awe of Cook’s navigational skills and the achievements of him and his men. I had to pull out my world map to plot his journeys. I learnt so much about the people of the pacific and the devastation of their culture that followed cook visiting their island. Incredible book.

Astounding.

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This is such a fascinating period in the history of the world. Amazing encounters across cultures, radical transformations of understanding and beliefs.

Yet all we hear these days are judgmental accounts from people who fail to see their own peculiar position.

Judging yesterday’s world by today’s unusually pious perspective is a kind of hubris.

It is also pretty predictable and boring.

Recommend to self righteous readers and anti colonialist types.

Another dismal screed against historic time.

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