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Bookmark or Share- 'The Wide Wide Sea' revisits Capt. James Cook's fateful final ...It's about an 18th-century sea voyage around the world, led by Captain James Cook, an explorer so accomplished that in the 1770s his was a household name in England.
- The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the ...The Wide Wide Sea braids the sweeping flair of a Patrick O’Brian novel with Nathaniel Philbrick’s boundless love for the world’s wild oceans. Here is a saga as tautly tuned as an eighteenth-century sailing ship, told by a master storyteller at the height of his powers.”
- The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and…In The Wide Wide Sea, Hampton Sides attempts to place Captain Cook into a more nuanced context, somewhere in between flawless adventurer on the one hand, and deliverer of all evils on the other. He also – it should be added – delivers one hell of a tale.
- THE WIDE WIDE SEA | Kirkus ReviewsAn acclaimed historian takes to the sea in this rousing tale of exploration. Sides, author of Hellhound on His Trail and Ghost Soldiers, writes that James Cook’s (1728-1779) voyages “form a morally complicated tale that has left a lot for modern sensibilities to unravel and critique.”
- The Wide Wide Sea - Hampton SidesThe Wide Wide Sea captures a time when Europeans were finding unfathomable new worlds. Armed with extensive research and terrific writing, Sides recreates the vast differences among Indigenous cultures and natural phenomena that were as terrifying as they were wondrous.”
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