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Book Endeavour

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Aughton
  • Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780304362363
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Endeavour written by Peter Aughton and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated account of life on board the Endeavour and its epic journey into the unknown between 1768 and 1771. Captain James Cook's voyage resulted in the mapping of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. According to the British government (who wished to deceive the world of its true purpose) it was merely a scientific expedition to observe the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun, a measurement that could help establish the scale of the universe itself. The real purpose was to find Terra Australis. Peter Aughton's narrative brings to life the main characters.

Book Captain Cook s Endeavour

Download or read book Captain Cook s Endeavour written by Karl Heinz Marquardt and published by Conway Maritime Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Endeavour, made eternally famous by Captain Cook's first voyage in her in 1768-71, was originally the collier Earl of Pembroke and was chosen by Cook for his voyage because of her strong construction. She was purchased by the Royal Navy at Whitby and then converted to an exploration ship at Deptford.

Book Endeavour

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Moore
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2019-05-14
  • ISBN : 0374715513
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Endeavour written by Peter Moore and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun.” --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 Moore’s Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World is a revealing and comprehensive account of the storied ship’s 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 history’s most important sailing ships, and in turn shines new light on the ambition and consequences of the Age of Enlightenment.

Book Captain Cook s Journal During His First Voyage Round the World  Made in H  M  Bark  Endeavour   1768 71

Download or read book Captain Cook s Journal During His First Voyage Round the World Made in H M Bark Endeavour 1768 71 written by James Cook and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Book Journal of H M S  Endeavour  1768 1771

Download or read book Journal of H M S Endeavour 1768 1771 written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holograph journal of the voyage of H.M.S. Endeavour during which Cook discovered Eastern Australia and circumnavigated New Zealand. Bound with the journal is a copy of a report from John Hutchinson, surgeon of the Dolphin to Capt. Samuel Wallis, 16th May 1768, of observations on the effects of saloop, portable soup, mustard and vinegar, distilled water and beef fat on scurvy. For further details and publications of the journal see J.C. Beaglehole (ed.) "The journals of Captain Cook" I cxciv-cciv.

Book Cook s Cook

Download or read book Cook s Cook written by Gavin Bishop and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the 1768 expedition to the South Pacific on HMS Endeavour, through the eyes of the one-handed cook.--back of book.

Book The Ship

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  • Author : Simon Baker
  • Publisher : Hylas Publishing
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book The Ship written by Simon Baker and published by Hylas Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ship" tells the remarkable story of Captain James Cook's voyage on the "Endeavour, " describing what happened when a team of volunteers boarded a replica of the ship to retrace a stretch of the route from Australia to Indonesia. 150 illustrations.

Book The Voyage of the Endeavour

Download or read book The Voyage of the Endeavour written by Alan Frost and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book you will discover what it meant to sail with Captain Cook into the uncharted waters of the South Pacific, why the Endeavour sought out the mysterious Great South Land and what kind of man Cook was.

Book Endeavour Voyage

Download or read book Endeavour Voyage written by National Museum of Australia and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Cook and 1770 marks the first moment of British contact with the east coast of the continent we now know as Australia. It is one of our nation's origin stories, although remembered very differently by Anglo-Australians and by Indigenous Australians. Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians brings something new to this chapter of our history. It expands our national narrative to encompass the perspectives of Indigenous Australians long absent from the telling of these stories. In making the exhibition and creating this companion book, the National Museum of Australia worked closely with Indigenous people from communities along the east coast of Australia -- people whose ancestors witnessed the events of 1770. This richly illustrated publication provides the back story to the exhibition and offers insights from Megan Davis, Maria Nugent, Angus Trumble, Sarah Engledow and others on both Captain James Cook and the Endeavour voyage, including how our understandings of the events of 1770 have been shaped, in part, by a 250th anniversary year defined by COVID-19.

Book Blue Latitudes

Download or read book Blue Latitudes written by Tony Horwitz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world Captain James Cook's three epic journeys in the 18th century were the last great voyages of discovery. His ships sailed 150,000 miles, from the Artic to the Antarctic, from Tasmania to Oregon, from Easter Island to Siberia. When Cook set off for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in Hawaii in 1779, the map of the world was substantially complete. Tony Horwitz vividly recounts Cook's voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice. He also relives Cook's adventures by following in the captain's wake to places such as Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Great Barrier Reef to discover Cook's embattled legacy in the present day. Signing on as a working crewman aboard a replica of Cook's vessel, Horwitz experiences the thrill and terror of sailing a tall ship. He also explores Cook the man: an impoverished farmboy who broke through the barriers of his class and time to become the greatest navigator in British history. By turns harrowing and hilarious, insightful and entertaining, BLUE LATITUDES brings to life a man whose voyages helped create the 'global village' we know today.

Book Captain Cook s Journal

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Cook
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-04-09
  • ISBN : 9781511658386
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Captain Cook s Journal written by James Cook and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Captain Cook's Journal" from James Cook. British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy (1728-1779).

Book Endeavour

Download or read book Endeavour written by Peter Aughton and published by . This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Captain Cook s Journal During His First Voyage Round the World Made in H M  Bark  Endeavour   1768 71

Download or read book Captain Cook s Journal During His First Voyage Round the World Made in H M Bark Endeavour 1768 71 written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den engelske opdagelsesrejsende James Cooks (1728-1779) dagbog fra hans første rejse til Sydhavet

Book Natural Curiosity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louise Anemaat
  • Publisher : NewSouth
  • Release : 2014-04-01
  • ISBN : 1742246788
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Natural Curiosity written by Louise Anemaat and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parrots and lorikeets swoop down, vivid, bright and colourful. Black swans glide through the air. Owls stare out from pages, wide-eyed. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in eighteenth-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds and plants – and striking watercolour illustrations. The sudden emergence, in 2011, of a large number of these watercolour illustrations has revealed much about the early years of the colony. In Natural Curiosity, Louise Anemaat uncovers never-before-published works from the artists of the First Fleet, including convicts-turned-watercolourists Thomas Watling and John Doody, and the anonymous 'Port Jackson Painter'. She unravels the complex network of natural history collectors who spanned the globe – eagerly acquiring, copying and exchanging these artworks – from New South Wales Surgeon-General John White to passionate British collector Aylmer Bourke Lambert.

Book A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas  in His Majesty s Ship

Download or read book A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas in His Majesty s Ship written by Sydney Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voyage of the Endeavour

Download or read book The Voyage of the Endeavour written by George Arnold Wood and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voyages of Discovery

Download or read book Voyages of Discovery written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of Cook's three voyages to the Pacific and Australasia : the first voyage (in "Endeavour") and the second (in "Resolution" and "Adventure") are largely retold in the third person, with some quotations from Cook's own writings (p. 1-228); the third voyage (in "Resolution" and "Discovery") consists of copious sections of Cook's own account plus accounts by Captains King and Clerke, in addition to the third-person narrative (p. 229-479).