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H.M. Bark Endeavour Box Set
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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
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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