Hampton Sides will be at Watermark Books & Cafe on Tuesday, July 9th at 6 pm for a reading and book signing of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.
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Author Hampton Sides is an American historian with many bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction. His latest book follows the third and final voyage of Captain James Cook.
The voyages of Captain James Cook have inspired many in the arts: Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner;" Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and even the character Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise. And they’ve led to a “canceling” of sorts by the indigenous peoples of the lands Cook quote-unquote “discovered.” I spoke with Hampton Sides about all of this. Here's our conversation.
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides was published by Doubleday.
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