- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
by Amit Roy EXHIBITION ABOUT JAMES COOK EXPLORES HIS LEGACY WORD associations being what they are, when anyone mentions the surname “Cook” to me, I automatically think of former England cricket captain Alastair Cook, who has given India so much grief over the years. But last week because of a new exhibition, The Voyages (until August 28) at the British Library, I was made aware of Capt James Cook, the explorer. Until recently he was what my more traditional colleagues at The Daily Telegraph would call “an all-round good egg”. However, the exhibition suggests his three expeditions, which brought British colonisation…
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