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The wide wide sea : imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook / Hampton Sides.
Record details
- ISBN: 0593863186
- ISBN: 9780593863183
- ISBN: 9780593863183
- ISBN: 0593863186
- Physical Description: xxii, 657 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-616) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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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