Cook's Endeavour Journal: The Inside Story

The second book in the National Library of Australia's beautifully illustrated Collection Highlights series, Cook s Endeavour Journal: The Inside Story brings to life the record of one of the world s most famous expeditions, the circumnavigation of the globe by Lieutenant James Cook aboard HMB Endeavour. It is a timeless story of courageous exploration the charting of New Zealand and Australia s eastern seaboard and of high adventure: a stand-off with a hostile Brazilian army and a near-shipwreck that almost brought the voyage to a premature end. The voyage of the Endeavour helped make sense of the eighteenth-century world. Cook s Endeavour Journal: The Inside Story, told in Cook s own words and in historical detail, will help you understand how.