The story of the astonishing voyage of Captain James Cook and the Endeavour, to mark the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's claim to sovereignty.
Professor Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's most prolific and
popular historians. He has written more than forty books, including
The Tyranny of Distance, Triumph of the Nomads, A Shorter History
of Australia, The Rush That Never Ended, and the international
bestseller A Short History of the World, which was published in a
score of lands as far apart as Brazil, India, Spain and China. He
has served the federal government as chairman of the Commonwealth
Literary Fund, the Australia Council for the Arts, the National
Council for the Centenary of Federation, and the Australia-China
Council.
At the United Nations in New York, in 1988, Professor Blainey
received the celebrated Britannica Prize 'for excellence in the
dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of mankind'. A recipient
of Australia's highest honour, Companion in the Order of Australia
(AC), he has been officially listed for two decades by the National
Trust as a 'National Living Treasure'. He is married to the
well-known biographer Ann Blainey.
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