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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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Author:
Hampton Sides
Publisher:
Doubleday
Date:
April 9, 2024
An account of a momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii.
What The Reviewers Say
The Wide Wide Sea presents Cook’s moral collapse as an enigma.
A gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage.
Thrilling and superbly crafted.
Sides make a persuasive case in 387 pages of diligent, riveting reporting that Cook came as a navigator and mapmaker and in dramatically opening what was known about our world, made us all richer in knowledge..
