The Wide Wide Sea Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

eBook - 2024

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, THE ECONOMIST, NPR, THE NEW YORKER, THE SMITHSONIAN, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year“In this masterly history, Sides tracks the 18th-century English naval officer James Cook’s third and final voyage across the globe, painting a vivid and propulsive portrait that blends generations of scholarship with the firsthand accounts of European seafare...rs as well as the oral traditions of Indigenous Pacific islanders.”—The New York Times Book ReviewOn July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized... more