The Wide Wide Sea
Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Published on 9. April 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
704 pages
978-0-593-86318-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day"--
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Edition
Large type / large print edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Diversified Publishing
Edition type
Large type / large print edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
674 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-593-86318-3 (9780593863183)
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Hampton Sides
The Wide Wide Sea
Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Book
04/2024
Doubleday & Co Inc.
€33.00
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Person
HAMPTON SIDES is the author of The New York Times bestselling histories On Desperate Ground, In the Kingdom of Ice, Hellhound on his Trail, Blood and Thunder, and Ghost Soldiers, which won the PEN USA Award for Nonfiction. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico