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12 apr 2024 · Bookshelf. ‘The Wide Wide Sea’ Review: The End of Capt. Cook. The navigator’s third voyage traveled to New Zealand and across the vast Pacific. It turned fatal in Hawaii. By. Andrew Graybill....
- Andrew Graybill
19 apr 2024 · In addition to Cook’s story, other narratives weave through the book. One particularly fascinating account is that of Mai, a native of Raiatea, a volcanic island 130 miles northwest of present ...
12 apr 2024 · Cook’s arrival wasn’t a peaceful affair: two members of the indigenous Gweagal people resisted the British landing, and one was shot as a result. Now, 254 years after their depart
26 apr 2024 · James Cook's three Pacific voyages. James Cook (born October 27, 1728, Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, England—died February 14, 1779, Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii) was a British naval captain, navigator, and explorer who sailed the seaways and coasts of Canada (1759 and 1763–67) and conducted three expeditions to the Pacific Ocean (1768–71 ...
- Alan John Villiers
2 mag 2024 · Hampton Sides is one of America’s foremost nonfiction authors. His latest book about Captain Cook, “The Wide Wide Sea," is one of his best.
11 apr 2024 · The greatness of Captain Cook. By Sean Durns. April 11, 2024 9:00 pm. . In his new book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James...
25 apr 2024 · Here’s my new book review in the Washington Post about Captain Cook’s third and final voyage: Hampton Sides’s THE WIDE WIDE SEA. This book is terrific. Sides is a magnificent story teller; he does not skirt the rapacious appetites of the British and other European monarc hies.
