About this book
A.N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration. Wilson's protagonist, witness to Cook's brilliance and wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist on board the HMS Resolution, on Cook's second expedition to the southern hemisphere, and penned a famous account of the journey. Resolution moves back and forth across time, to depict Forster's time with Cook, and his extraordinary later life, which ended with his death in Paris, during the French Revolution.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Published
- 2016
- Pages
- 278
- ISBN
- 9781782398271
About Unknown Author
Andrew Norman Wilson was born in Stone. He was educated at Rugby School and then received a Bachelor's degree from Oxford University in 1972. He entered St Stephen's House, the High Church theological hall at Oxford, intending to be ordained in the Church of England, but he left after his first year. He is well known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular and cultural history.
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