Resolution
By: A.N. Wilson
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781782398271; 9781782398288; 9781782398295; 9781786490667; 9781782398301
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Botanists; Travel; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.