Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World
An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun. --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book ReviewA Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for HistoryAn unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized worldThe 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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- ISBN: 978-0-374-14841-6
- EAN: 9780374148416
- Produktnummer: 28949995
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.9 cm x D4.0 cm 694 g
- Gewicht: 694
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Peter Moore
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