Endeavour

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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 *