Why Captain Cook Turned Back at the Edge of the World

Описание: For fifteen centuries, a phantom continent haunted the world's maps: Terra Australis. In 1772, Captain James Cook was sent on an impossible 3-year mission to find it.


This is the story of what he found instead.

We uncover the true, brutal story of the HMS Resolution's voyage to the absolute edge of the unknown. A journey so desperate the crew was forced to eat biscuit so rotten it was "a living mass of insects". A mission so grueling Captain Cook himself, deathly ill, was fed broth made from his naturalist's pet dog just to survive.




This is the story of the first ship in history to cross the Antarctic Circle. After losing his sister ship in a storm , Cook pushed on alone—only to be confronted at 71° South by an impassable, 300-foot-tall wall of ice.





He was faced with an agonizing choice: his ambition, or the lives of his 112 men. This is the story of why he turned back.