Peter Moore: The Endeavour

A lecture in memory of Peter Barrett

From acorn to seafloor, Endeavour is the biography of the ship James Cook sailed on his first voyage to the South Seas. It is a story that ranges from the North Yorkshire Moors to the enchanting Pacific island of Otaheite; from the Great Barrier Reef to New York harbour in 1776. A quarter of a millennium after its short life Endeavour remains a contested object that belongs both to the Age of Empire and the Age of Enlightenment. To many in the West the ship has become a powerful example of progress and daring, while to others in the Pacific Endeavour remains a loathed symbol of British imperialism.

Peter Moore teaches at the University of Oxford and is the bestselling author of four works of history. He was born and brought up in Staffordshire and in 2021 gave the Samuel Johnson Memorial Lecture in Lichfield.

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