Publisher's Synopsis
In the summer of 1768, an eleven-year-old butcher's apprentice named Nicholas Young climbed aboard a ship, hid from the captain and crew, and waited to be carried far away from the life he hated in London. Nick didn't know it, but the ship he chose - the H.M.S. Endeavour - was captained by James Cook and bound for an astonishing adventure circumnavigating the globe. Based on exhaustive historical research, this is an extraordinary fictionalized account of a real boy on this real journey.
