H.M. Bark Endeavour Updated Edition
$74.98
- Hardcover
480 pages
- Release Date
19 May 2020
Summary
Here, in one accessible volume, is Ray Parkin’s highly acclaimed and multi-award winning study of Captain James Cook’s Endeavour. This incomparable book is a unique account of a great journey-Endeavour’s voyage up the east coast of Australia in 1770-and a remarkable re-creation of the experience of being on board ship.
Parkin draws on meticulous research to reveal what the Endeavour looked like, how it sailed, how it smelled, what daily life would have been like for those on board. Ho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522876437 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522876439 |
| Author: | Ray Parkin |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | The Miegunyah Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 19 May 2020 |
| Weight: | 2.01kg |
| Dimensions: | 304mm x 215mm x 47mm |
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About The Author
Ray Parkin
Ray Parkin (1910-2005) was born in Melbourne. He joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1928 and spent eighteen years in the service. In 1942 he was on board HMAS Perth when the cruiser was sunk by the Japanese in the Sunda Strait, killing two-thirds of those on board. After the sinking of Perth Parkin spent three and a half years as a Japanese prisoner of war in Java, on the Burma-Siam Railway and in coal mines in Japan. His experiences during this period led to three books-Out of the Smoke, Into the Smother and The Sword and the Blossom-published to critical acclaim in the 1960s and republished as Ray Parkin’s Wartime Trilogy. At the end of the war, Parkin completed a fine art course. He worked on the Melbourne waterfront until his retirement in 1975, when he went to London to continue his research into Endeavour.
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