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Resolution / A. N. Wilson.
Van Pelt Library PR6073.I439 R47 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, A. N., 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forster, Georg, 1754-1794--Fiction.
- Forster, Georg.
- Cook, James, 1728-1779--Travel--Fiction.
- Cook, James.
- Cook, James, 1728-1779.
- Forster, Georg, 1754-1794.
- Botanists--Fiction.
- Botanists.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Resolution : a novel of the boy who sailed with Captain Cook
- Place of Publication:
- London : Atlantic Books, 2016.
- Summary:
- A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration. Wilson's protagonist, witness to Cook's brilliance and wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist on board the HMS Resolution, on Cook's second expedition to the southern hemisphere, and penned a famous account of the journey. Resolution moves back and forth across time, to depict Forster's time with Cook, and his extraordinary later life, which ended with his death in Paris, during the French Revolution.
- ISBN:
- 9781782398271
- 1782398279
- 9781782398288
- 1782398287
- OCLC:
- 957062292
- Publisher Number:
- 99968870230
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