Voyage of the Endeavour: Captain Cook and the discovery of the Pacific

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Captain Cook's voyage into the uncharted South Pacific not only provided the incentive for the settlement of Australia and New Zealand - it was one of the greatest scientific adventures. In this volume, the author overturns the familiar idea of Lt James Cook RN. The competent "tradesman" navigator is revealed as a passionate visionary whose impact on those he worked with was profound. The author attempts to discover what it meant to sail with Cook, why the Endeavour sought out the mysterious Great South Land, why the manoeuvrings of the French and Spanish mattered, and what kind of man Cook was.

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Alan Frost is professor of history at La Trobe University. He embarked on The Voyage Of The Endeavour at the invitation of the Endeavour Foundation which manages the Endeavour replica. Since August 1994 the Endeavour replica has been visited by over 700,000 tourists.