Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World. By Peter Moore. Chatto & Windus; 432 pages; £20. To be published in America by Farrar, Straus & Giroux next year.
ONE clear moonlit night in June 1770, James Cook ran into yet more proof of how remarkable the newly explored continent of Australia was. Literally: his ship, Endeavour, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef. The next 23 hours were spent bailing water in terror, until finally Endeavour slid free. Ship, captain and the intelligence he had gathered returned to England—and a rapturous welcome.
Rarely has a craft been so well named. As Peter Moore shows in his new book, 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...
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