The wide wide sea : imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook / Hampton Sides.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385544764
- ISBN: 0385544766
- Physical Description: xxi, 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
General Note: | Maps on endpapers. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 Infierno -- Tavern of the seas -- The isle of desolation -- Alonna-lunawanna -- 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 -- Lono's tears -- Epilogue. The long concealed arrangements of the Almighty. |
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Genre: | History. Travel writing. |
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