We are not the benign sun worshippers that grace the pages of magazines, nor the marginal wannabes that we often think ourselves to be. Through necessity our memories are short, as our memories have such a fallow field and usually belong to far distant and illustrious others. Cook is more remembered for his inglorious death than his accidental discovery. We are still not certain of who found this country under sail and who left in haste, but we are sure that the candidates are numerous an...