First Map: Cook's Endeavour with canoes
First Map: Cook's Endeavour with canoes
First Map: Cook's Endeavour with canoes
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First Map: Cook's Endeavour with canoes

The Endeavour ship from First Map: How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand, written by Tessa Duder and illustrated by David Elliot.

  • Paper size: 280 mm x 220 mm
  • In simple frame (shown in the photo)

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    This is a study for the Endeavour image which appears on pages 40-41 of First Map:

    As Endeavour anchored in bays of the North Island's eastern coasts, Cook and his crew became familiar with canoes putting out from the shore to encircle the ship, sometimes more than forty at a time.