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Resolution: A novel of Captain Cook´s discovery to Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, through the eyes of botanist George Forster.
A. N. Wilson
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Description for Resolution: A novel of Captain Cook´s discovery to Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, through the eyes of botanist George Forster.
Paperback. From one of our leading novelists and historians comes a breathtakingly vivid novel that recalls the three voyages Captain Cook made to the southern hemisphere, culminating in the last, fateful expedition on which he was brutally murdered Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FJ; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782398301
SKU
V9781782398301
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About A. N. Wilson
A.N. Wilson grew up in Staffordshire and was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. He lives in North London.
Reviews for Resolution: A novel of Captain Cook´s discovery to Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, through the eyes of botanist George Forster.
A brilliant novel
Catholic Herald
All is vividly imagined and the reader follows his adventures breathlessly... an epic book
Country Life
Wilson's book is as much a factual account of Forster's life as a piece of historical fiction... Wilson's achievement is to impart a restrained imaginative power that makes its extremes seem credible.
Guardian
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Catholic Herald
All is vividly imagined and the reader follows his adventures breathlessly... an epic book
Country Life
Wilson's book is as much a factual account of Forster's life as a piece of historical fiction... Wilson's achievement is to impart a restrained imaginative power that makes its extremes seem credible.
Guardian
... Read more