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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.
Wilson once again demonstrates his great powers as a master craftsman of the historical and the human in this richly evoked novel, which brings to life the real and the extraordinary, brilliantly drawing together a remarkable cast of characters in order to look at human endeavour, ingenuity and valour.