The bestselling author of 'Ghost Soldiers,' 'In the Kingdom of Ice' and 'On Desperate Ground,' returns with the story of Captain James Cook, and an account of his final, fatal voyage of exploration.
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.Hampton Sides, the bestselling author of 'Ghost Soldiers,' 'In the Kingdom of Ice' and 'On Desperate Ground,' returns with 'The Wide Wide Sea' , the story of Captain James Cook, and an account of his final, fatal voyage of exploration.
Yet today, Cook's voyages are passionately contested, especially in Polynesia, viewed as the start of the systematic dismantling of traditional island cultures that historian Alan Moorehead famously called 'the fatal impact.' Moorehead said he was interested in 'that fateful moment when a social capsule is broken into,' and Cook's expeditions certainly provided an excellent case study of the phenomenon.
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