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The wide wide sea imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook
(2024)
By: Sides, Hampton

Nonfiction

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NEW LARGE TYPE/910.92/SIDES,H

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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House Large Print, [2024]
©2024
EDITION
First large print edition
DESCRIPTION

xxii, 657 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780593863183, 0593863186 :, 0593863186, 9780593863183
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

CONTENTS
Author's note -- Prologue: And louder grew the shouting -- Book One: The first navigator of Europe -- Book Two: The weight of my resentment -- Book Three: Faraway Heaven -- Book Four: New Albion -- Book Five: Apotheosis -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index

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Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Travel.

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Voyages around the world -- History -- 18th century.

Scientific expeditions -- History -- 18th century.

Pacific Area -- Discovery and exploration.

Oceania -- Discovery and exploration.

Pacific Coast (North America) -- Discovery and exploration.

Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration.

Northeast Passage -- Discovery and exploration.

Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.

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