The wide wide sea [large print] : imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook

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Title:

The wide wide sea [large print] : imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook

Author:

Sides, Hampton, author.

ISBN:

9780593863183

Personal Author:

Sides, Hampton, author.

Edition:

First large print edition.

Physical Description:

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

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.

Abstract:

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.

Personal Subject:

Cook, James, 1728-1779-Travel.

Cook, James, 1728-1779-Death and burial.

Subject Term:

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

Scientific expeditions -- History -- 18th century.

Large type books.

Geographic Term:

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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