In 1767, 11-year-old Nicholas Young stowed away on Captain James Cook's Endeavour. Cook's three-year mission was secret: He was charged by the British Navy to search for a lost continent, believed to be located between the southern tip of South America and New Zealand. Nick's journal charts the voyage, with every port of call a new adventure. He befriends a native of Tahiti, taken aboard the Endeavour, is enlisted as an Able Seaman, and becomes the surgeon's assistant.
Here is one of the great voyages of discovery seen through the eyes of a boy who was actually there.
