H.M. Bark Endeavour Box Set

Name: H.M. Bark Endeavour Box Set
Brand: Simon & Schuster NZ
SKU: 9780522876444
Price: 250.0 NZD
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By Ray Parkin

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H.M. Bark Endeavour Box Set by Ray Parkin offers the most meticulous study ever undertaken of Captain James Cook's famous ship, the Endeavour. Set in the 1970s, Parkin, a sailor and artist, researched every detail of the vessel that voyaged along Australia's east coast in 1770. The book recreates life aboard the Endeavour, describing its appearance, sailing capabilities, smells, and daily routines. Parkin leaves no detail overlooked, from the number of strands in the ship's cable to the diameter of the main mast.

The box set includes 15 full-size reproductions of detailed plans and illustrations, alongside a richly annotated text featuring original journal extracts and interpretive commentary, all housed in an elegant hard case.
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This detailed and richly illustrated work is ideal for history enthusiasts, maritime scholars, model shipbuilders, and readers fascinated by 18th-century naval exploration.

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Ray Parkin, sailor, artist and author, set out in the 1970s to discover everything he could about Captain James Cook's Endeavour, one of the most famous ships in maritime history. The result is the most painstaking study of the ship ever undertaken and a unique account of a great journey—Endeavour's voyage up the east coast of Australia in 1770.

Writing for the general reader and mariner alike, Parkin sets out to re-create the experience of being on board the Endeavour. Through meticulous research, he reveals how it looked, how it sailed, how it smelled, and what daily life would have been like for those on board. No aspect of ship life was too insignificant for his enquiries. How many strands of yarn were there in the ship's cable? (954.) Did the ship have a lightning conductor? (Yes.) What was the diameter of her main mast? (21 inches.)

Parkin's text is illustrated by plans and figures depicting the ship's architecture and construction, its deck plan, rigging, sails, armament, boats, cables, anchors, and accommodation. To enable detailed examination, this box set contains 15 original size (79cm X 58cm) reproductions of Parkin's illustrations. The illustrations and the updated edition of the book are packaged together in a beautiful hard case.

The text also contains a composite log of Endeavour's voyage. Extracts from journals kept by those on board are supplemented by an interpretive commentary and explanatory charts. H.M. Bark Endeavour is an absorbing book—discursive, erudite, at times poetic, full of wisdom, insight and information.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780522876444

Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 19 May 2020

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Miegunyah Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 84.0mm

Width: 222.0mm

Height: 324.0mm

Weight: 3346g

Pages: 480

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About the Author

Melbourne-born Ray Parkin (1910-2005) was an omnivorous reader and gifted artist who largely educated himself and became a fine maritime painter. He spent eighteen years in the Royal Australian Navy, including three years as a prisoner of war of the Japanese during World War II.

After the war he became a waterfront tally clerk and wrote of his wartime experiences in Out of the Smoke, Into the Smother and The Sword and the Blossom, all published to critical acclaim by The Hogarth Press, London, in the 1960s, and republished by MUP as Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy. He worked on the Melbourne waterfront until his retirement in 1975 when he went to London to continue his research into Endeavour.

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