H.M. Bark Endeavour

Third revised edition: quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titling and a burgundy ribbon; 468pp., with many tables, charts and black & white illustrations, and 15 folding ship schematics in a sympathetically styled, gilt-titled box, all in a labelled slipcase. Minor spotting to the top edge of the text volume; some minor rubbing to the slipcase. Very good. Ray Parkin lived a harrowing life at sea: in 1928 he joined the Royal Australian Navy and served an eighteen-year stint which saw his ship, the HMAS Perth, torpedoed in 1942 by the Japanese, after which he was interned in a POW camp and worked on the Burma-Siam railway and later as an indentured coalminer in Japan. After his rescue and later retirement, he dedicated his life to writing the definitive overview of HM's Bark The Endeavour, a project in which he was wholeheartedly supported by J.C. Beaglehole, Captain Cook's premier biographer. The result of twenty-five years of painstaking research, is this astonishing book, which outlines everything there is to know about this ship, perhaps the most famous nautical craft in Australia's history. The work contains not only a plethora of maps and schematics, but also a composite log of her journeys, interweaving the records of many of those who travelled onboard, edited by Parkin, as well as a list of myriad facts about the craft right down to what she would have smelt like. Did she have a lightning rod How many strands of yarn were there in her ship's cable What was the diameter of her main mast All of this and an unbelievable amount more is contained herein.

Product Info

Publisher: Miegunyah Press, Carlton South Vic., 1999.

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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