Captain Cook's Apprentice

''What are they saying?'' Isaac asked Taiata.
''They are calling us tupua. . . goblins and demons.''
''And what else?''
''They say they will come back and kill us all.''

When young Isaac Manley sailed on the Endeavour from England in 1768, no one on board knew if a mysterious southern continent existed in the vast Pacific Ocean. It would be a voyage full of uncertainties and terrors.

During the course ...