Endeavour The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook’s recently discovered ship
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Peter Moore is a writer, journalist and lecturer. He teaches creative writing at the University of Oxford. His debut, Damn His Blood, reconstructed a rural murder in 1806. His second, The Weather Experiment, a New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year', traced early efforts to forecast the weather. His latest book, Endeavour, was a multiple book of the year and a Sunday Times bestseller. He presents a history podcast called Travels Through Time.Mr Moore is a dazzling new arrival: a witty, intelligent and hugely entertaining writer
Wall Street Journal
A joy of a biography, offering up a blizzard of maritime and political fascinations... Moore has written a book that makes the case for his little ship both compelling and irrefutable
- Simon Winchester, New York Times
Moore uses Endeavour as a window to the age of enlightenment. Like the period it recounts, this book has enormous energy, creativity and self-confidence. It's a feast of endless exotic dishes, all delivered with immense style
- Gerard DeGroot, The Times Books of the Year
Beautifully constructed, his book is not just the history of a single vessel, but a window into the intellectual and political life of the age of enlightenment, from the thrill of botanical discovery to the horror of Cook's last moments on the beaches of Hawaii
- Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Books of the Year
A dazzling combination of science and adventure, lyrically evocative descriptions of lush tropical landscapes and salt-stung seascapes, and a portrait of an age…an absolute joy from start to finish, and surely my history book of the year
- Christopher Hart, Sunday Times
Fascinating and richly detailed... Peter Moore has brought us an acute insight into the ship that carried some of the most successful explorers across the world. A fine book that’s definitely worth exploring
- Michael Palin,
<i>Endeavour </i>is an extraordinary book about an unlikely ship that defined an age... Like the age it recounts, it is a book of energy, creativity and self-confidence
- Gerard DeGroot, The Times, **Books of the Year**
Pays brilliant tribute to what was arguably the most significant ship in the history of British exploration
- Nick Rennison, Daily Mail
Bold and imaginative... the same brave wind that filled Endeavour's sails blows through this book and it is hard to resist
- David Crane, Spectator
Moore’s richly detailed book is an engrossing love letter to a work, an attitude and a ship: it is an endeavour that honours Endeavour, without denying the death and destruction that followed in her wake
- Ruth Scurr, Guardian