Cook’s proof that money can indeed grow on trees

OF the many publications generated by Captain Cook’s exploits in the Pacific, the most curious is surely A Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth Collected in the Three Voyages of Captain Cook to the Southern Hemisphere...

Published for Alexander Shaw in 1787, eight years after Cook's death, it deals with tapa, or bark cl…

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