Captain Cook's Merchant Ships

Freelove, Three Brothers, Mary, Friendship, Endeavour, Adventure, Resolution and Discovery

Stephen Baines (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2015
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6214-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Stephen Baines is the author of"The Yorkshire Mary Rose: The Ship General Carleton of Whitby.""

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.8.2015
Zusatzinfo	140 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-7509-6214-3 / 0750962143
ISBN-13	978-0-7509-6214-8 / 9780750962148
Zustand	Neuware