2 books in 1
THE LAST VOYAGE
'The tribes of these islands of New Zealand are the most warlike I have encountered... no Son ever forgetting an injury done to his Father... creeping up at night and sparing neither the Women nor the Children, and having slaughtered them they do then feast upon their bodies on the spot.
On 12 July 1776, Captain James Cook sailed from Plymouth in the three-masted collier RESOLUTION in search of the fabled North-West Passage. It was his third amazing voyage of discovery, and this is the story he might have written, an imagined diary full of fascinating detail, showing a great seaman stretched to his limits.
It was a voyage that swept Captain Cook and his crew from the icy wasteland of the Arctic to the tropical waters of Hawaii a voyage in pursuit of one man's dream against the fury of the elements, and in the face of unknown terrors. It was also a journey that would change life on His Majesty's ships of the line for ever...
HIGH STAND
'We crossed Slave Lake, the Rockies looming ahead, the murmur of the engines barely audible as we began to slide down the sky towards a world of jagged peaks and the dirty yellow of snow that had lain exposed all summer. On and off I had been thinking of Miriam. Almost a month ago she had come this way, maybe in this very seat... Had the sky been as clear as it was now? Had she sat there looking down on the barren, ice-scarred land below, thinking of her destination? And not a word since that postcard.
Why should mine-owner Tom Halliday have changed his will after so many years? And why should he disappear shortly afterwards? Philip Redfern, his solicitor, realizes he must find the answers.
His investigations lead him to a gold mine in the Yukon. And to the 'High Stand' of red cedars in the forests of British Columbia - where the secrets are deadly and the stakes terrifying.
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