The Endeavour Journals : Captain Cook in Australia

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

John Macdonald

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC 2024

Summary:

In 1770 H.M. Bark Endeavour arrived in New Holland, Australia, the 'Continent of Smoke'. On board were Lieutenant James Cook, gentleman naturalist Joseph Banks, natural history artist Sydney Parkinson, and Midshipman James Magra. For the first time, this book combines the journals of these men to present a single, cohesive narrative that brings the story to life as never before. The journals are complimented by over 300 images, including charts, costal profiles, plans of harbors, and many original drawings executed during the voyage of the animals, people and landscape unique to the region. Of the many titles that are available concerning Cook and his voyaging, few focus on Cook's New Holland experience. Most commonly these titles are interpretative accounts, and heavily weighted with the author's opinion. However, here the story of New Holland is told in the words of the explorers themselves, containing first hand accounts of all the elements of drama, risk and first discovery. Focusing particularly on the contact with the Indigenous people and how they were first described by Europeans, this is an adaption of the discovery story made accessible to the general reader as well as the historian, without compromising the integrity of the original document. These adventurers were men of their own time, constrained by the common beliefsthat fashioned the lives of peopletwo hundred and fifty years ago. If some of their words sit uncomfortably with current thinking, we should remind ourselves that some of our own beliefs and actions, might similarly be thought beyond the pale by future generations, and that we too may find ourselves the target of criticism from those who come after us.

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Contents by Geographical Division

Colour Plates

The Endeavour Journals:Captain Cook in Australia

The Authors

Prologue

Continent of Smoke

Chapter 1 A Certain Sign the Country is Inhabited

Chapter 2 Resolved to Dispute our Landing to the Utmost

Chapter 3 All They Seemed To Want Was For Us To Be Gone

Chapter 4 To Try To Form Some Connections With The Natives

Chapter 5 A Great Quantity of Smoke

Chapter 6 Mister Orton He Is A Man Not Without Faults

Chapter 7 Not One Drop of Which We Could Find

Chapter 8 Fear of Death Now Stared Us in the Face

Chapter 9 Nor Have We Seen One Since We Have Been in Port

Chapter 10 Their Unaccountable Timidity

Plates

Chapter 11 Two of Them Embarked and Came Towards the Ship

Chapter 12 Our Very Good Friends

Chapter 13 A Countenance Full of Disdain

Chapter 14 Lumber Not Worth Carriage

Chapter 15 Cape Flattery

Chapter 16 The Indians Had Been Here

Chapter 17 Great Dangers Swallow Up Lesser Ones

Chapter 18 More Happier Than We Europeans

Epilogue

Glossary of Terms

Ship's Muster on Endeavour

Notes

Acknowledgements

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-3990-6413-4

1-3990-6411-8

OCLC:

1551395831