Graduate student and Auckland Library Heritage Trust Cook/Banks Scholar, Jake Bransgrove illuminates a couple of key figures from the age of intrepid discovery. He personalises these larger than life figures by looking at their historical context and in particular the relationship between the two as revealed through manuscripts held in Auckland Libraries' Sir George Grey Special Collections.
You can access the manuscripts mentioned in the talk, along with their transcriptions, through the library's research platform Kura: https://bit.ly/2JJBkvZ
Recorded at the Auckland Central Library on Wednesday 20 March 2019.
Image: "The great South Sea Caterpillar, transform’d into a Bath Butterfly" by James Gillray. Text read at beginning of track is taken from this work.
Music: Plutian - Sailing. Released by DreamScape Records