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The Wide Wide Sea Hampton Sides

The Wide Wide Sea By Hampton Sides

The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides


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The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook's death


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On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach in Hawaii, Cook was killed beaten and stabbed in a conflict with the indigenous population.

What brought Cook to these final moments, so at odds with his reputation? Renowned for his humane leadership, dedication to science and the curiosity and respect, not judgement, with which he greeted societies that were new to him, Cook had already mapped huge swathes of the Pacific and initiated first European contact with numerous native peoples.

The stated mission for his third voyage was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London high society, to his home islands. But Cook carried secret orders to venture north, to discover the fabled Northwest Passage and chart and claim lands before Britains imperial rivals. And Cook himself was different on his final, fatal voyage.

Deeply researched and vividly told, The Wide Wide Sea is at once a ferociously-paced, epic adventure and a searching examination of the consequences of the Age of Exploration from a master storyteller.

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PRAISE FOR HAMPTON SIDES

'Enthralling as gripping as any well-paced thriller but a lot more interesting because it is also true' THE TIMES

Stunningly vivid MARK BOWDEN, AUTHOR OF BLACK HAWK DOWN

'Splendid in every way a marvellous nonfiction thriller' WALL STREET JOURNAL

Extraordinary meticulous research shores up a fast-paced narrative FINANCIAL TIMES

'Viscerally dramatic spellbinding... bold, dynamic, unusually vivid NEW YORK TIMES

'Unforgettablea pulse-racing epic a masterful work of history and storytelling' LOS ANGELES TIMES

Reads like a first-class epic thriller' TIME

About Hampton Sides

Hampton Sides is an editor-at-large for Outside magazine and teaches literary journalism and narrative history at Colorado College. The bestselling author of Kingdom of Ice, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, and Hellhound On His Trail, he lives in Santa Fe with his wife Anne.

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NGR9780241437339
9780241437339
0241437334
The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
New
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
2024-04-11
432
N/A
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