The Captain's Journals
HE muse of history probably owes as much gratitude to radio as any of the other eight. Certainly such a programme as The Journals of Captain Cook brings history forward into our own present as even the most popular
of biographies cannot do, and puts the Endeavour and the Discovery in a position to compete, not unfavourably, with the Kon-Tiki and the Seven Sisters. And, journalistically speaking, the Journals should have nothing to fear from their modern successors. They exhibit such modern virtues as nonchalance (Cook mentions, in passing, the fact that it took 32 days to round the Horn though this could, of course, be credited to the adapter), straightforwardness, and _ an awareness of what constitutes human interest. It is splendidlv read by Briton Chadwick, with some sort of regional burr which adds weight to his subject by its suggestion of homely virtue.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 799, 12 November 1954, Page 25
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147The Captain's Journals New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 799, 12 November 1954, Page 25
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