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Endeavour : the ship that changed the world / Peter Moore.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374148416 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in 2018 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as Endeavour : the ship and the attitude that changed the world"--Copyright page. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-363) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part one. Life. Acorns -- Part two. Trade. Enigmas ; Cross currents ; Mr Birds ways ; Land of liberty -- Part three. Exploration. 'Take a trip in disguise' ; Airy dreams ; Perfect strangers ; 'That rainbow serpent place' -- Part four. War. 360\DS\ ; The frozen serpent of the south ; The Collier fleet ; Ghosts. |
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| Subject: | Cook, James, 1728-1779. Great Britain. Royal Navy > History. Endeavour (Ship) > History. Navigation > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Great Britain > History, Naval > 18th century. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Stroud Branch | 910.92 Moo | 31681010154805 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Traces the story of the Enlightenment-era ship that Darwin credited with adding a hemisphere to the civilized world, discussing its first charting of New Zealand, survival throughout major military engagements and representation of culture, trade and imperialism. - Baker & Taylor
"A history of the legendary ship Endeavour"-- - Baker & Taylor
Traces the story of the ship Endeavour, discussing its first charting of New Zealand, survival throughout major military engagements, and its representation in culture, trade, and imperialism. - McMillan Palgrave
"An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun.â --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book Review
A Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for History
An unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized world
The Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand projects undertaken at speed. Endeavour was also the name given to a collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768. It was a commonplace coal-carrying vessel that no one could have guessed would go on to become the most significant ship in the chronicle of British exploration.
The first history of its kind, Peter Mooreâs Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World is a revealing and comprehensive account of the storied shipâs role in shaping the Western world. Endeavour famously carried James Cook on his first major voyage, charting for the first time New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia. Yet it was a ship with many lives: During the battles for control of New York in 1776, she witnessed the bloody birth of the republic. As well as carrying botanists, a Polynesian priest, and the remains of the first kangaroo to arrive in Britain, she transported Newcastle coal and Hessian soldiers. NASA ultimately named a space shuttle in her honor. But to others she would be a toxic symbol of imperialism.
Through careful research, Moore tells the story of one of historyâs most important sailing ships, and in turn shines new light on the ambition and consequences of the Age of Enlightenment.
