Endeavour

Autor*innen

• Moore Peter

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• Biografien & Memoiren
• Geschichte
• Karten & Reisen
• Sachliteratur
• Weltgeschichte

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The Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. From Johnson's Dictionary to campaigns for liberty to schemes for measuring the dimensions of the solar system, Britain was consumed by the impulse for grand projects, undertaken at speed. `Endeavour' was also the name given to a Whitby collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768 for an expedition to the South Seas. A commonplace, coal-carrying vessel, no one could have guessed that Endeavour would go on to become the most significant ship in the history of British exploration. Endeavour famously carried James Cook on his first great voyage, visiting Pacific islands unknown to European geography and charting New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia for the first time. But Endeavour has a secret history that few know about. She brought Europeans their first experience of the Great Barrier Reef and was there at London's Wilkes Riots in 1768. At the Battle of Brooklyn Heights in 1776, she witnessed the bloody birth of the United States of America. She carried Newcastle coal, botanists, Hessian soldiers, a Polynesian priest and the remains of the first kangaroo to arrive in Britain. According to Charles Darwin, she helped to add a hemisphere to the civilised world. NASA would name a space shuttle after her. To others she would be a toxic symbol, responsible for the dispossession of the oldest continuous human society and the disruption of many others. No one has ever told Endeavour's story before. Peter Moore sets out to explore the different lives of this remarkable ship, from the acorn that grew into the oak that made her, to her rich and complex legacy

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Einband: Paperback