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The wide wide sea imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook Cover Image Large Print Book

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

Sides, Hampton, (author.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593863183
  • ISBN: 0593863186
  • Physical Description: xxii, 657 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York,NY : Random House Large Print, [2024]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-616) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Author's note -- Prologue: and louder grew the shouting -- Book One: the first navigator of Europe. Negative discoverer ; Proto-anthropologist ; A human pet ; A fine retreat ; A natural politeness ; The problem of the ice ; No tutor but nature ; Fresh discoveries ; The secret instructions -- Book Two: the weight of my resentment. Isla del Inferno ; Tavern of the seas ; The Isle of Desolation ; Lunawanna-alonnah ; A shocking scene of carnage ; The land of the long white cloud ; Return to grass cove -- Book Three: faraway Heaven. Aphrodite's island ; This barbarous custom ; Duped by every designing knave ; A kingdom for a goat ; The ardor of inviolable friendship ; Faraway heaven ; Scorched up by the heat of the sun ; A new race of people ; In the land of the Menehune -- Book Four: New Albion. Foul weather ; Soft gold ; In bering's wake ; Deep water and bold shores ; Possessed ; Risen in a new world ; Big with every danger -- Book Five: apotheosis. Pathway of the Gods ; Approaching adoration ; Golden days ; A welcome overstayed ; The water's edge ; The bones of Captain Cook ; The long concealed arrangements of the Almighty -- Epilogue: Lono's tears.

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Subject: Cook, James, 1728-1779 > Travel.
Cook, James, 1728-1779 > Death and burial.
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.
Genre: Biographies.
Large print books.

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