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Endeavour voyage :
Lead curator: Ian Coates ; Curators: Shona Coyne, Alana Garwood-Houng, Lily Withycombe, Kayla Borman ; Producer : Janey Wood. "Published to accompany the exhibition Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians, National Museum of Australia, 2 June 2020 - 28 Apr 2020."--Title page verso. The Story of Cook and 1770 marks the first moment of British contact with the east coast of the continent we now know as Australia. It is one of our nation's origin stories, although remembered very differently by Anglo-Australians and by Indigenous Australians. Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians brings something new to this chapter of our history. It expands our national narrative to encompass the perspectives of Indigenous Australians long absent from the telling of these stories. In making the exhibition and creating this companion book, the National Museum of Australia worked closely with Indigenous people from communities along the east coast of Australia - people whose ancestors witnessed the events of 1770. This richly illustrated publication provides the back story to the exhibition and offers insights from Megan Davis, Maria Nugent, Angus Trumble, Sarah Engledow and others on both Captain James Cook and the Endeavour voyage, including how our understandings of the events of 1770 have been shaped, in part, by a 250th anniversary year defined by COVID-19. Foreword: First act of reconciliation / Matthew Trinca -- Below deck: the story behind the exhibition / Ian Coates -- Telling our story our way / Ray Ingrey, Shane Ingrey, Paul Irish, Kodie Mason, Sophie Youngberry (Gadhungal Research Program team) -- Renaming - reclaiming ceremony / Alana Garwwod-Houng -- Behind the message / Alison Page -- Art on the beach: community artists respond to the events of 1770 / Edwina Circuitt-- Through children's eyes / Lily Withycombe and Naomi Zouwer -- Ship and shore: navigating the exhibition -- Eight places / Munda Babul, Point Hicks, Gulaga, Mount Dromedary, Kamay, Botany Bay, Dooragan, Mooragan and Booragan, Three Brothers Mountains, Gooragan, Bustard Bay, Seventeen Seventy, Endeavour Reef, Waalumball Birri, Endeavour River, Bedanug, Thunadha, Bedhan Lag, Tuidin, Possession Island -- Georgian England: after the voyage -- Recasting Cook -- Concluding reflections -- Agents of the Enlightenment / Angus Trumble -- Unfathomable Cook / Sarah Engledow -- Cook-In-Canberra: exhibition Endeavours in the 21st century / Marie Nugent -- Endeavour interrupted: commoration in the time of Covid-19 / Angus Trumble -- Makarrata: the coming together after a struggle / Megan Davis -- Unfinished business / Shona Coyne NMA G 2020 NMA 2020 (2 copies)