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Captain Cook and the French Revolution
I’ve been reading Hough’s biography of Captain Cook and thinking about what Townsvillean said when I told him we’d bought a house in Blois built in 1584: “Your house is about twice as old as my nation!”. One of … Continue reading
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Tagged Blois, Captain Cook, French Revolution, Magnetic Island, Marie Antoinette, Terra Australis
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