![]() ![]() But generally, Patrick Harvey was a good narrator of the story. If they are wrong, they lessen our trust in the narrator. Is there no producer present to make sure the narrator gets these things right? - surely it would be easy, with search engines, to say place names properly. The narrator made quite a few howlers in pronunciation. In 1768, as a galivanting young playboy, he joined Captain James Cook's Endeavour expedition to the South Pacific. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Australian and British history. Fabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific discoveries in Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and the Arctic. I found the non-Cook sections, before and after the voyages, more interesting, and they certainly showed what a major figure Banks was, not only in science but in public affairs generally, and as a wealthy benefactor for many people and organizations. It was not quite as interesting as the others because I knew so much about Captain Cook's voyages, and Banks' important part in them - but all that had to be told of course. I have enjoyed two other biographies by Grantley Kieza, those of Macquarie and Paterson, and this one is of the same high standard. ![]()
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