“ Anthony Hill has done it again with Captain Cook’s Apprentice. It is a cracking good read…an adventure story of detail and nuance. ”
The Weekly Times
“ This epic boy's-own adventure story imagines what life must have been like on Cook’s historic voyage ”
Daily Telegraph
Trade Paperback
9780143789505
July 2, 2018
Viking
304 pages
EBook
9781742283807
September 1, 2008
Penguin eBooks
276 pages
EBook
9780143789512
July 2, 2018
Penguin eBooks
304 pages
I
BEGINNINGS
England, June to August 1768
The boy knew danger was coming.
He could hear it, sitting at the prow of his ferryboat on the broad River Thames . . . a deep growl of angry water that grew louder as they neared London Bridge.
He could feel it, for the boat began to kick and strain as it caught the edges of the rip, where the pent-up river gushed into narrow channels between the piers.
And then he could see it. A white, foaming cascade as the water swirled through the arches, like a rapids.
Danger. And the boy Isaac knew what he would do.
Continue ReadingThe author of Captain Cook's Apprentice reveals some of the new words and ideas collected by the voyagers on HM Bark Endeavour almost 250 years ago.