Graeme Lay

NZ novelist and short story writer. Interests: the sea, travel, and reading and writing about both.

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September 1773. James Cook's Resolution passes atolls that he names the "Hervey Islands".
Today they are part of the "Cook Islands."
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#HistoricalFiction
#Palmerston Island

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August 1773. James Cook's Resolution & Tobias Furneaux's Adventure approach the coast of Tahiti. Winds drive the ships close to the reef.
Can they be saved?
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#Tahiti

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July 1773. En route to Tahiti, James Cook learns that there is scurvy on Resolution's consort ship, Adventure. Cook is furious with her commander, Tobias Furneaux.
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May 1773. James Cook's Resolution & Tobias Furneaux's Adventure are reunited in NZ's Queen Charlotte Sound. But there Cook also makes a disturbing discovery.
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#Tobias Furneaux

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May 1773. James Cook's Resolution arrives in NZ's Queen Charlotte and finds HMS Adventure there.
The ships' crews enjoy a joyful reunion!
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#QueenCharlotteSound
#ShipCove

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April 1773. James Cook's Resolution leaves Dusky Sound, heading for Queen Charlotte Sound, hoping to be reunited with her lost consort ship, Adventure.
But will she be there?
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April 1773. Dusky Sound provides James Cook & his crew with their needs: fresh water, fish, duck meat.
And Cook leaves an indelible impression on the land.
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#DuskySound

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April 1773. James Cook's Resolution spends weeks in Fiordland's Dusky Sound, reprovisioning.
But all the time Cook wonders:
Where is HMS Adventure, their lost consort ship?
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March 1773. James Cook & HMS Resolution, seeking respite from Antarctic fogs & icebergs, sail for NZ's Dusky Sound.
Will it provide them with what they sorely need?
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#Dusky Sound

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March 1773. After weeks of sailing in frigid Antarctic waters, and having lost contact with her consort vessel, James Cook's Resolution needs to make a landfall.
But where?
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January 1773. James Cook's two ships, Resolution and Adventure, become separated in freezing Antarctic waters.
Where does Cook go from here?
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#AntarcticCircle
#TobiasFurneaux

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January 1773. James Cook's Resolution & Adventure are in Antarctic waters, tacking through freezing fog & "ice mountains".
Then, calamity, the ships lose one another.
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November 1772. James Cook's ships Resolution & Adventure set sail from Cape Town.
They head south, towards Antarctica. Temperatures plummet.
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#GreatSouthernContinent

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October 1772. While James Cook & Resolution sail down the Atlantic, Joseph Banks sails off in a huff to Iceland. He never sails with Cook again.
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#JosephBanks
#HistoricalFiction

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July 1772. James Cook's two ships set sail from Plymouth on a voyage which is to prove one of the most successful in naval history.
But where is Joseph Banks?
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#JosephBanks

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July 1772. James Cook's second world is at last under way, minus Joseph Banks, who takes some supporters with him. Cook's ships are Resolution & Adventure.
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#Joseph Banks

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1772, London. Joseph Banks throws a tantrum because his changes to Resolution have made the ship unsafe. He withdraws from Cook's expedition.
What will the young man do now?
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London, 1772. Plans for James Cook's 2nd world voyage are in disarray. Naturalist Joseph Banks defects, taking others with him.
Can the expedition be saved?
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#JosephBanks

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London 1772. Joseph Banks' radical enlargement of HMS Resolution proves disastrous. Captain James Cook demands the ship be restored; Banks is furious.
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June 1772. The modifications to James Cook's HMS Resolution, insisted on by Joseph Banks, prove a costly flop. The ship is a (just)floating liability.
What to do?
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