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Corriecat

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 09:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Is anyone else watching The Ship on the Learning Channel? Its similar to 1900's house where 40 volunteers and a team of experts are sailing a replica of Cpt. Cooks ship along the route he took through the Great Barrier Reef. They get to wear their own clothes and use a modern toilet but the ship, navigation and food are all the same as Cook had. The 3 part series started last night and part one repeats several times if you missed it.

Hummingbird

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 03:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the heads-up. I'll tune in. Loved 1900 House and Frontier House. Didn't know about this one.

Twinkle

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 09:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I watched last night and taped this evening's show. The crew has members from England, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. It's educational without being boring. I now have a much deeper appreciation for and understanding of the life of sailors in the 18th century. For example: Why learn to swim? If the ship sinks, it's better to drown quickly instead of thrashing around for 30 minutes.
The History Channel (not the Learning Channel :)) will air the same episodes many times in the next week or two. Well worth watching.

Bastable

Monday, October 21, 2002 - 09:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
By the way, if you liked "The Ship," there's a new book by a guy who took The Ship for a week, and he spends the rest of the book tracing the places where Captain Cook went, and seeing what he left behind. I'm reading it right now and I'm really enjoying it. It's called "Blue Horizons" by Tony Horwitz.