title: Captain Cook's World: Maps of the Life and Voyages of James Cook R. N.
author: John Robson
description: James Robson is a librarian at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, and the New Zealand representative of the Captain Cook Study Unit of the Captain Cook Society.
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  ## Chapter Two
  
  
  
  
  
  **S** o Henry did not dangle on the gallows at Tyburn, in the end, nor did his
  father lose his position at Kew. The Whittakers were miraculously reprieved,
  and Henry was merely exiled, sent away to sea, dispatched by Sir Joseph Banks,
  to discover what the world would make of him.
  
  
  
  
  
  It was 1776, and Captain Cook was about to embark on his third voyage around
  the world. Banks was not joining this expedition. Simply put, he had not been
  invited. He had not been invited on the second voyage, either, which had
  rankled him. Banks’s extravagance and attention-seeking had soured Captain
  Cook to him, and, shamefully, he had been replaced. Cook would be traveling
  now with a humbler botanist, somebody more easily controlled—a man named Mr.
  David Nelson, who was a timid, competent gardener from Kew. But Banks wanted a
  hand in this journey somehow, and he very badly wanted to keep an eye on
  Nelson’s botanical collecting. He didn’t like the idea of any important
  sc