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St Mary Redcliffe lies on the south bank of the river Avon. It was
built outside the walls of the ancient city of Bristol, yet through
the centuries it has played an important part in the city's
history. And when we come to study the parish history we find not
only local happenings but world shattering events. In the late 15th
century, a parishioner called John Cabot sailed from Redcliffe to
discover New Found Land across the Atlantic Ocean. Christopher
Columbus notwithstanding, true Bristolians believe that America was
named after Cabot's contemporary, Richard Ameryk. In the 17th
century, when America first became colonised by the English,
William Penn of St Mary Redcliffe had the state of Pennsylvania
named after him. It is not just the celebrated and artistic, but
also the ordinary people of the parish who are celebrated in this
book. Peter Aughton's lively text does justice to a rich parish
history spanning many centuries,
Cook was the greatest explorer of his age and his voyages of
discovery are the stuff of legend. During two long journeys, he
circumnavigated the globe twice, charted the east coast of
Australia, the whole of New Zealand and many islands in the
Pacific. "The Fatal Voyage" is the story of Cook's final journey
when he led his most dangerous and fabled expedition to search for
the elusive Pacific entrance to the North West Passage. He set sail
from England in July 1776 and along the way discovered the Hawaiian
archipelago before mapping and charting the formidable north west
coast of America, from Vancouver Island to the frozen northern
coastline of Alaska. He sailed through the Bering Straits and
although his ships reached the entrance to the North West Passage
they were defeated by a sheer wall of ice blocking their way. Cook
returned to Hawaii to rest, but a series of misjudgments between
his men and the islanders sparked a violent clash in which Cook was
killed at Kealakekua Bay. Peter Aughton has here used letters, log
records and the diaries of those involved in the voyage to tell an
enthralling account of James Cook's last days at sea and reveal the
extraordinary legacy he left behind.
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