Captain Cook's Merchant Ships (eBook)

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

Stephen Baines (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015 | 1. Auflage
288 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6549-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.8.2015
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: Captain James Cook • collier brig friendship • collier freelove • Freelove • Freelove, Three Brothers, Mary, Friendship, HMS Endeavour, HMS Adventure, HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, captain james cook, collier freelove, collier brig friendship, merchant vessels, • Friendship • HMS Adventure • HMS Endeavour • HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery • Mary • merchant vessels • Three Brothers
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-6549-5 / 0750965495
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6549-1 / 9780750965491