Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World -- Peter Moore

<p><b>An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun." --Simon Winchester, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><b><br>A <i>Sunday Times </i>(U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and W</b><b>inner of the Mary Soames Award for History</b><br><b><br>An unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized world</b> <p/>The Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand projects undertaken at speed. <i>Endeavour</i> 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 of British exploration. <p/> The first history of its kind, Peter Moore's <i>Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World</i> is a revealing and comprehensive account of the storied ship's role in shaping the Western world. <i>Endeavour</i> famously carried James Cook on his first major voyage, charting for the first time New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia. Yet it was a ship with many lives: During the battles for control of New York in 1776, she witnessed the bloody birth of the republic. 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. NASA ultimately named a space shuttle in her honor. But to others she would be a toxic symbol of imperial