
Captain Cook's Merchant Ships
Freelove, Three Brothers, Mary, Friendship, Endeavour, Adventure, Resolution and Discovery
Stephen Baines(Author)
The History Press Ltd
Will be published approx. on 3. August 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7509-6214-8 (ISBN)
Description
While the story of Endeavour is widely known, Captain Cook sailed with eight ships, which began their lives as merchant vessels. This detailed illustrated history tells the story of these vessels and the people who sailed in them. In placing these ships and people in the personal, political, social, financial, scientific and religious contexts of their times, this book provides a comprehensive and readable account of the 'long eighteenth century'. Using contemporary sources, this gripping narrative fills a gap in Cook history and attempts to catch something of the exciting, violent, gossipy but largely untaught and unknown period through which these vessels and their people sailed literally and figuratively between the old world and the new.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
140 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
627 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7509-6214-8 (9780750962148)
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Stephen Baines
Captain Cook's Merchant Ships
Freelove, Three Brothers, Mary, Friendship, Endeavour, Adventure, Resolution and Discovery
E-Book
08/2015
The History Press Ltd
€18.49
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Person
Stephen Baines is the author of The Yorkshire Mary Rose: The Ship General Carleton of Whitby.