Andrea Wulf
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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However, they also landed in Australia.
And we all know what came from that.
So that becomes the kind of a colony for Britain.
And it is, you know, even with a scientific purpose, like finding the southern continent, it is...
an imperial endeavor.
So it is not like, oh, well, we just want to find out a few things.
So yes, it is very much financed by the British government, by the British Admiralty.
And Cook has very precise instructions
to write reports about the soils they find, the plants they find, the temperament, the temper and the temperament of the indigenous people, the local people, just to see, couldn't we kind of go in there and just turn them into slaves or something like that?
Will they fight us?
So this is very much an imperial endeavor.
So he's the assistant naturalist and the draftsman.
And he has not a lot of choice in going on the endeavor because his father decides it.
He's not a very talented draftsman when he starts.
So when you look at his early birds from New Zealand, they will kind of like cling to the branches and look at they're about to fall off.
But he becomes very, very, you know, becomes very, very good.
So they could collect a lot of plants easily.
They shoot birds, they kind of dissect fish, and they don't really come back with any discoveries as such because
Joseph Banks, who was a botanist, and Daniel Solander, they were on the Endeavour voyage, and they had brought back quite a lot of plants already.
So Reinhold Foster, George's father, is constantly complaining that they spent too much time in Antarctica.
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