An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun." --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book Review A Sunday Times (U.K.) Endeavour was also the name given to a collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768. Endeavour famously carried James Cook on his first major voyage, charting for the first time New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia. As well as carrying botanists, a Polynesian priest, and the remains of the first kangaroo to arrive in Britain, she transported Newcastle coal and Hessian soldiers. NASA ultimately named a space shuttle in her honor. But to others she would be a toxic symbol of imperialism.