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Book · 1997
H.M. Bark Endeavour: Her Place in Australian History
Representing over a quarter-century of meticulous archival and nautical research, seaman and artist Ray Parkin delivers a comprehensive anatomical and historical reconstruction of Captain James Cook's famed exploration vessel. Blending technical architectural plans and rigging diagrams with a composite voyage log from on-board journals, the landmark study chronicles the ship's 1770 eastern Australian passage in exhaustive detail.
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The brilliance of Parkin’s research has been to work with infinite patience on every inch of the Endeavour – its frame, its rigging and sails, all its equipment – and make an alliance between what Parkinson saw and what the Endeavour was planned to be.
Greg Dening on Naval Historical Society of Australia H.M. Bark Endeavour is a brilliant achievement. Parkin is a draughtsman artist with poetry in his words, a humble curiosity in his mind, and a direct and simple style for his pen. He idolises Sydney Parkinson, one of Sir Joseph Banks’s artists on the Endeavour, who he says personified William James’s dictum “let expression equal impression”.
Greg Dening on Naval Historical Society of Australia This magnificent work represents nearly 30 years hard work and the result is something to be proud of. Apparently the author needed an illustration of the Endeavour to use on a Christmas card and, unable to find a suitable one, he set out to research the subject. Being an artist and having had a nautical career Parkin has used his skills and background to produce a record of the ship with text and wonderful plans and drawings.
John Robson on Captain Cook Society
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