This is history as you long to read it, charismatic, concise and
unputdownable.- HORATIO CLARE
Like Sir Francis Drake and Lord Horatio Nelson in Kevin Jackson's
acclaimed maritime history series, Captain James Cook was also born of
humble means. The son of a Scottish farm labourer and a mother from
Yorkshire, Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager, and
would go on from his humble beginnings to become an explorer, master
navigator, cartographer and one of the most celebrated naval Captains in
British history.
Cook's Endeavour is Jackson's masterful chronicle of Captain Cook's
first Pacific Ocean voyage; a landmark journey which resulted in the
mapping of largely uncharted areas of New Zealand and Australia, first
encounters with aboriginal tribes and leaps and bounds in botanical
discovery. Aboard the Endeavour, Cook mapped a whole new world.
But Cook's historic journey was not without tribulation, or without
challenge - the famed botanist Joseph Banks, Cook's contemporary and
natural science expert on the Endeavour, was everything Cook was not;
dapper, aristocratic, awarded with instantaneous fame for his
discoveries in the aptly named Botany Bay.
Cook's Endeavour is the thrilling and inspiring story of a boy, lured in
his youth to the sea, who became a man forever synonymous with
discovery, legacy and adventure.
