{"product_id":"endeavour-the-ship-and-the-attitude-that-shaped-the-western-world","title":"Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude That Shaped the Western World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. From Johnson's \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDictionary\u003c\/span\u003e to campaigns for liberty to schemes for measuring the dimensions of the solar system, Britain was consumed by the impulse for grand projects, undertaken at speed. 'Endeavour' was also the name given to a Whitby collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768 for an expedition to the South Seas. A commonplace, coal-carrying vessel, no one could have guessed that \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEndeavour \u003c\/span\u003ewould go on to become the most significant ship in the history of British exploration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEndeavour \u003c\/span\u003efamously carried James Cook on his first great voyage, visiting Pacific islands unknown to European geography, charting for the first time New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia and almost foundering on the Great Barrier Reef. But \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEndeavour \u003c\/span\u003ewas a ship with many lives. She was there at the Wilkes Riots in London in 1768. During the battles for control of New York in 1776 she witnessed the bloody birth of the United States of America. As well as carrying botanists, a Polynesian priest and the remains of the first kangaroo to arrive in Britain, she transported Newcastle coal and Hessian soldiers. According to Charles Darwin, she helped Cook add a hemisphere to the civilised world. NASA named a space shuttle after her. To others she would be a toxic symbol, responsible for the dispossession of the oldest continuous human society and the disruption of many others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one has ever told \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEndeavour\u003c\/span\u003e's complete story before. Peter Moore sets out to explore the different lives of this remarkable ship, from the acorn that grew into the oak that made her, to her rich and complex legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!--StartFragment --\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cf0\"\u003eAuthor: Peter Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cf1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cf0\"\u003eISBN: 9780143780267\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cf2\"\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ 448 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Random House Australia\u003cbr\u003eDate Published: 20 August 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENGUIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52101412258066,"sku":"016073","price":37.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/9001\/9602\/files\/EndeavourTheShipandtheAttitudeThatShapedtheWesternWorld.jpg?v=1773194549","url":"https:\/\/store.anmm.gov.au\/products\/endeavour-the-ship-and-the-attitude-that-shaped-the-western-world","provider":"Sea Museum Retail Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}