Endeavour by Peter Moore
For the first time, Peter Moore tells Endeavours complete story, exploring the different lives of this remarkable ship -- from the oak that made her to her rich and complex legacy. Fascinating and richly detailed...
Mr Moore is a dazzling new arrival: a witty, intelligent and hugely entertaining writer * Wall Street Journal *
A joy of a biography, offering up a blizzard of maritime and political fascinations.. Moore has written a book that makes the case for his little ship both compelling and irrefutable -- Simon Winchester * New York Times *
Moore uses Endeavour as a window to the age of enlightenment. Like the period it recounts, this book has enormous energy, creativity and self-confidence. It's a feast of endless exotic dishes, all delivered with immense style -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times Books of the Year *
Beautifully constructed, his book is not just the history of a single vessel, but a window into the intellectual and political life of the age of enlightenment, from the thrill of botanical discovery to the horror of Cook's last moments on the beaches of Hawaii -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times Books of the Year *
A dazzling combination of science and adventure, lyrically evocative descriptions of lush tropical landscapes and salt-stung seascapes, and a portrait of an age…an absolute joy from start to finish, and surely my history book of the year -- Christopher Hart * Sunday Times *
Fascinating and richly detailed... Peter Moore has brought us an acute insight into the ship that carried some of the most successful explorers across the world. A fine book that’s definitely worth exploring -- Michael Palin
Endeavour is an extraordinary book about an unlikely ship that defined an age... Like the age it recounts, it is a book of energy, creativity and self-confidence -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times, **Books of the Year** *
Pays brilliant tribute to what was arguably the most significant ship in the history of British exploration -- Nick Rennison * Daily Mail *
Bold and imaginative... the same brave wind that filled Endeavour's sails blows through this book and it is hard to resist -- David Crane * Spectator *
Moore’s richly detailed book is an engrossing love letter to a work, an attitude and a ship: it is an endeavour that honours Endeavour, without denying the death and destruction that followed in her wake -- Ruth Scurr * Guardian *
Moore’s approach is lavishly digressive… A rollicking yarn -- Lewis Jones * Sunday Telegraph *
Endeavour was more than merely the first English vessel to reach New Zealand and Australia's east coast. She was also a floating laboratory, a vast seed-bank and an international observatory...the spirit of Enlightenment under sail * The Economist *
Peter Moore’s elegant and entertaining new book offers us a fascinating biography of the Endeavour, using it as a window onto the broader world of the mid-18th-century English Enlightenment...a deeply satisfying book. It represents an intelligent, diverse, fresh and challenging approach to writing the history of exploration * Literary Review *
This narrative of the ship commanded by Captain Cook is illuminated by imagination and creativity. Particularly brilliant is the depiction of its context in 18th-century Britain, where the culture of intellectual enquiry we know as the Enlightenment prompted the Admiralty to support Cook, and he was accompanied by botanists, astrologers, artists and cartographers * Times Higher Education *
What a truly remarkable book this is…entirely fresh and original…shows how this stalwart, unpretentious, little coal bark came to embody the Age of Exploration, of Enlightenment, of Empire, and of Revolution -- Professor Iain McCalman, author of Darwin's Armada and The Reef: A Passionate History, from Captain Cook to Climate Change
[An] extraordinary story… [and] a fascinating period of history -- Chris Burns * Yorkshire Post *
Endeavour’s… story… [will] rarely be more engagingly recorded than here -- Harry Mead * Northern Echo *
Engrossing detail… written in an engaging literary style… [a] fine book -- Glyn Williams * Times Literary Supplement *
A joy of a biography, offering up a blizzard of maritime and political fascinations.. Moore has written a book that makes the case for his little ship both compelling and irrefutable -- Simon Winchester * New York Times *
Moore uses Endeavour as a window to the age of enlightenment. Like the period it recounts, this book has enormous energy, creativity and self-confidence. It's a feast of endless exotic dishes, all delivered with immense style -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times Books of the Year *
Beautifully constructed, his book is not just the history of a single vessel, but a window into the intellectual and political life of the age of enlightenment, from the thrill of botanical discovery to the horror of Cook's last moments on the beaches of Hawaii -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times Books of the Year *
A dazzling combination of science and adventure, lyrically evocative descriptions of lush tropical landscapes and salt-stung seascapes, and a portrait of an age…an absolute joy from start to finish, and surely my history book of the year -- Christopher Hart * Sunday Times *
Fascinating and richly detailed... Peter Moore has brought us an acute insight into the ship that carried some of the most successful explorers across the world. A fine book that’s definitely worth exploring -- Michael Palin
Endeavour is an extraordinary book about an unlikely ship that defined an age... Like the age it recounts, it is a book of energy, creativity and self-confidence -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times, **Books of the Year** *
Pays brilliant tribute to what was arguably the most significant ship in the history of British exploration -- Nick Rennison * Daily Mail *
Bold and imaginative... the same brave wind that filled Endeavour's sails blows through this book and it is hard to resist -- David Crane * Spectator *
Moore’s richly detailed book is an engrossing love letter to a work, an attitude and a ship: it is an endeavour that honours Endeavour, without denying the death and destruction that followed in her wake -- Ruth Scurr * Guardian *
Moore’s approach is lavishly digressive… A rollicking yarn -- Lewis Jones * Sunday Telegraph *
Endeavour was more than merely the first English vessel to reach New Zealand and Australia's east coast. She was also a floating laboratory, a vast seed-bank and an international observatory...the spirit of Enlightenment under sail * The Economist *
Peter Moore’s elegant and entertaining new book offers us a fascinating biography of the Endeavour, using it as a window onto the broader world of the mid-18th-century English Enlightenment...a deeply satisfying book. It represents an intelligent, diverse, fresh and challenging approach to writing the history of exploration * Literary Review *
This narrative of the ship commanded by Captain Cook is illuminated by imagination and creativity. Particularly brilliant is the depiction of its context in 18th-century Britain, where the culture of intellectual enquiry we know as the Enlightenment prompted the Admiralty to support Cook, and he was accompanied by botanists, astrologers, artists and cartographers * Times Higher Education *
What a truly remarkable book this is…entirely fresh and original…shows how this stalwart, unpretentious, little coal bark came to embody the Age of Exploration, of Enlightenment, of Empire, and of Revolution -- Professor Iain McCalman, author of Darwin's Armada and The Reef: A Passionate History, from Captain Cook to Climate Change
[An] extraordinary story… [and] a fascinating period of history -- Chris Burns * Yorkshire Post *
Endeavour’s… story… [will] rarely be more engagingly recorded than here -- Harry Mead * Northern Echo *
Engrossing detail… written in an engaging literary style… [a] fine book -- Glyn Williams * Times Literary Supplement *
Peter Moore is a writer, journalist and lecturer. He teaches creative writing at the University of Oxford. His debut, Damn His Blood, reconstructed a rural murder in 1806. His second, The Weather Experiment, traced early efforts to forecast the weather. His latest book, Endeavour, was a multiple book of the year and a Sunday Times bestseller. He presents a history podcast called Travels Through Time.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784740900 |
| ISBN 10 | 178474090X |
| Title | Endeavour |
| Author | Peter Moore |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2018-08-23 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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