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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: Jun 2002
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Historical - Exploration & Discovery
Retail Price: $8.99
Ages: 10 - 14 Pages: 320
It is known that in the summer of 1768, Captain James Cook sailed from England on H.M.S Endeavour, beginning a three-year voyage around the world on a secret mission to discover an unknown continent at the bottom of the globe. What is less known is that a boy by the name of Nicholas Young was a stowaway on that ship.
Newbery winner Karen Hesse re-creates Cook's momentous voyage through the eyes of this remarkable boy, creating a fictional journal filled with fierce hurricanes, warring natives, and disease, as Nick discovers new lands, incredible creatures, and lifelong friends.