Author: Craigie, Lucy Elizabeth.
Title: The Voyage of the Endeavour.
Description: Sussex New Horizon, 1982. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), red leatherette covers, card pages, blue endpapers, black & white drawings, minor edgewear jacket. 27 pp. This account of Cook's epic voyage by Lucy Craigie attempts to recreate something of the spirit of the Endeavour, by presenting a chronological, factual, 'journalistic' account counterpointed by emotive commentary. The author was born in Australia of a family with early roots here - her great grandfather brought a printing press on a bullock dray from Maitland to Armidale in New South Wales to establish the third oldest newspaper in that state. ISBN: 0861165039

Keywords: australian history, exploration, maritime, captain cook, britain, pacific 0861165039


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