by Charles Mudede RonBailey/gettyimages.com
In the eighth lecture, "Exploring the Planet," of Patrick N. Allitt's Teaching Company course The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, the danger of suppressing fires is mentioned in the context of the British discovery and eventual colonization of Australia. Allitt says that when the 18th century British explorer Captain James Cook and his crew first made contact with the natives of that continent, it was noticed that they carried fire sticks with the
In the eighth lecture, "Exploring the Planet," of Patrick N. Allitt's Teaching Company course The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, the danger of suppressing fires is mentioned in the context of the British discovery and eventual colonization of Australia. Allitt says that when the 18th century British explorer Captain James Cook and his crew first made contact with the natives of that continent, it was noticed that they carried fire sticks with the