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Captain Cook's merchant ships: Freelove, Three Brothers, Mary, Friendship, Endeavour, Adventure, Resolution and Discovery

By Stephen , Baines

Book information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780750965491, 9780750962148, 0750962143
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
13 MB (13875437 bytes)
Pages
288 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Merchant ships;Merchant ships--Great Britain--Hist

Description

While the story of Endeavour is widely written about, Captain Cook sailed in or with eight ships which began their lives as merchant ships. This detailed illustrated history tells the story of these ships and the people who have 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 readable and comprehensible account of the long Eighteenth Century. Often using contemporary sources, this gripping account fills a gap in Cook history and attempts to catch something of that exciting, v.

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