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   Sep 1, 2024 · Hampton Sides’ The Wide Wide Sea delves deeply into the tension between European imperial ambition and Indigenous sovereignty. It illustrates how Captain James Cook’s voyages epitomized the duality of exploration as both a quest for knowledge and a precursor to exploitation.

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   Overview. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (2024) by Hampton Sides provides an account of the final voyage of Captain James Cook, emphasizing the dramatic encounters and tragic events that defined this historical journey.

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   Apr 19, 2024 · The book begins in 1776, a year of revolution. Cook, a seasoned navigator, sets off aboard the HMS Resolution. Sides creates a dramatic image of 1700s adventure, a period of bold expedition...

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   Apr 9, 2024 · At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration, The Wide Wide Sea is a major work from one of our finest narrative nonfiction writers.

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   Sep 17, 2024 · “The Wide Wide Sea” is a captivating exploration of Captain Cook’s final voyage, offering both high-seas adventure and thoughtful analysis. Hampton Sides’ engaging prose and meticulous research bring the 18th-century Pacific to life, while grappling with the complex legacy of exploration.

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   Jun 7, 2024 · THE WIDE WIDE SEA. The final, fatal adventure of Captain James Cook. 432pp. Michael Joseph. £25. Hampton Sides. Attitudes to James Cook have long served as proxies for attitudes to other things, and books about the explorer, of which there are many, tend to mirror the moment in which they are written: hagiographic in the age of empire, nuanced ...

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   Is the Wide Wide Sea a biography of James Cook?

   • 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 is not a biography of James Cook.

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   • Alone on a wide wide sea! “The horror! The Horror!”--Kurtz, in Jospeh Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (2024) is my first book from Hampton Sides, who has--I learn--built a best-selling readership of thrilling non-fiction adventure stories.

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   Is the Wide Wide Sea a good book?

   • Very readable and very interesting. Highly recommend. In this 432 page book/16 hour audiobook The Wide, Wide Sea, Hampton Sides tells an engaging story from start to finish about Captain James Cook's third and final circumnavigating voyage (1776-1780).

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   Who is Captain Cook in the Wide Wide Sea?

   • Unsurprisingly, Captain Cook is the central character of The Wide Wide Sea. Though this is not a traditional biography, Sides does his usual skillful work divining his character. The Cook on these pages has lost a bit of his edge, and perhaps more than a bit of his mental faculties.

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   Was Captain James Cook a good sailor?

   • It is a book that treats complicated matters – such as cross-cultural sexual relationships – as complicated matters. Ultimately, there is no final word on Captain James Cook, and Sides does not bother to try. Perhaps all that can be said of him – without it being contested – is that he was a good sailor.

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   The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook is the latest book by Hampton Sides with a powerful historical narrative as one is transported to one the most thrilling eras of exploration in the eighteenth century. The book is a deeply researched history relying, not only on the words of ...