Description"An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun." --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book Review A Sunday Times (U.
He lives in London..
He is the author of Damn His Blood and The Weather Experiment, which was named one of the New York Times Book Review\'s 100 Notable Books of 2015 and adapted for a BBC4 documentary series.
About the Author Peter Moore teaches creative writing at the University of London and the University of Oxford.
Through careful research, Moore tells the story of one of history\'s most important sailing ships, and in turn shines new light on the ambition and consequences of the Age of Enlightenment.
But to others she would be a toxic symbol of imperialism.
NASA ultimately named a space shuttle in her honor.
As well as carrying botanists, a Polynesian priest, and the remains of the first kangaroo to arrive in Britain, she transported Newcastle coal and Hessian soldiers.
Yet it was a Ship with many lives: During the battles for control of New York in 1776, she witnessed the bloody birth of the republic.
Endeavour famously carried James Cook on his first major voyage, charting for the first time New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia.
The first history of its kind, Peter Moore\'s Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World is a revealing and comprehensive account of the storied ship\'s role in shaping the Western world.
It was a commonplace coal-carrying vessel That no one could have guessed would go on to become the most significant Ship in the chronicle of British exploration.
Endeavour was also the name given to a collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768.
K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for History An unprecedented history of the storied Ship That Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized World The Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand projects undertaken at speed.
Description"An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun." --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book Review A Sunday Times (U
