Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Wide Wide Sea
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
- Author
- Hampton Sides
- Published
- 2024
- Pages
- 400
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Sides follows Cook’s third and last voyage — the search for the Northwest Passage, the encounters across the Pacific, and the deterioration of Cook’s own judgement that ended at Kealakekua Bay.
Where I saw it: A bare Amazon link saved in the note.
Connections
- Republic of Letters — the portfolio idea this sits closest to: a voyage undertaken as much for the survey as for the empire.