Peter Moore
Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- 2019
- Gebunden
- 432 Seiten
- ISBN 9780374148416
"An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun." --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book Review A Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and W inner 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. Endeavour was also the name given to a collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768. 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
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