Resolution / A. N. Wilson.
Publication details: London, England : Atlantic Books, 2016.Description: 278 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781782398288
- 1782398287
- Resolution : a novel of the boy who sailed with Captain Cook
- Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Travel -- Fiction
- Forster, Georg, 1754-1794 -- Fiction
- Forster, Georg, 1754-1794
- Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Travel
- Cook, James, 1728-1779
- Forster, Georg, 1754-1794
- Forster, Georg, 1754-1794 -- Fiction
- Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Travel -- Fiction
- Resolution (Ship) -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Botanists
- Explorers -- Fiction
- Voyages and travels -- Fiction
- Botanists
- Travel
- Forster, George, 1754-1794 - Fiction
- Botanists - Fiction
- Cook, James, 1728-1779 - Travel - Fiction
- Botanists -- Fiction
- Oceania -- Discovery and exploration
- Oceania -- Discovery and exploration
- 823.92 23
- PR6073.I439 R47 2016
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | WIL | Available | 066440 |
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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.