Captain Cook is a controversial figure – villain ... "The Wide Wide Sea," documenting Cook's final and fateful voyage. "He had three voyages around the world; each one was monumental," said ...

It includes shells gathered on Captain James Cook's final voyage, now on display at a museum in Northumberland. SCHMITZ: The shells were previously believed to be lost until the 1980s, when John ...

UNTIL RECENTLY Captain James Cook was not a particularly controversial ... Acting under Admiralty orders, he undertook three pioneering voyages in the Pacific between 1768 and 1779.

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The story of Capt. James Cook’s third voyage has all the elements of a Greek tragedy — hubris, good intentions gone awry, fatal error. The English sea captain, an ...

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook; By Hampton Side; Doubleday; 432 pp., $35.00 Tales of Cook’s exploits have fallen out of ...

Sides’ latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage. Cook is a controversial historical figure, especially in light of increasing ...

Into these roiling waters wades “The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook” (Doubleday), a new biography by Hampton Sides.

The voyages of Captain James Cook delivered new and exciting scientific and geographical discoveries to the western world. "Natural Curiosities", such as rocks, plants and animals were obviously ...

For hardware, captain James Cook was to test out a ... First, it was meant to record a significant event. Cook’s first voyage, after all, had circumnavigated the globe; great things were ...

James Cook’s first voyage of exploration which saw him become ... Cook and his crew also faced huge challenges as a new exhibition at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, in Whitby, reveals.

THE WIDE WIDE SEA: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, by Hampton Sides In January 1779, when the British explorer James Cook sailed into a ...