Endeavour - The Ship and the AttitudeThat Changed the World by Moore, Peter - 2018

London: Chatto and Windus, 2018. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket. 420 pages. 32 illustrations. Plan of Her Majesty's Bark Endeavour as fitted at Deptford in July 1768 endpapers. The Endeavour was the name of a Whitby collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768 for an expedition to the South Seas. A commonplace coal-carrying vessel, which no one would have guessed would go on to become the most significant ship in the history of British exploration. Endeavour famously carried Captain James Cook on his first great voyage. Endeavour was a ship with many lives - she was there at the Wilkes riots in London in 1768; during the battles for control of New York in 1776 where she witnessed the bloody birth of America. As well as carrying botanists, a Polynesian priest and the remains of the first kangaroo to arrive in Brtain, she transported Newcastle coal and Hessian soldiers. According to Charles Darwin , she helped Cook add a hemisphere to the civilised world. L. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.