New Book on Captain James Cook - The Wide Wide Sea

[Kennebec_Captain]

New book, 2024, The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides.

I’ve read about Captain Cook here and there of course but this is the first book I’ve read just about Cook. This one is about Cook and his third and final voyage.

I really enjoyed this book, there was a lot I didn’t know about Cook’s voyages, for one my assumptions about the time frame was way off. Didn’t know the European discovery of Hawaii had been so late (1778).

Early in the book there was a couple references to imperialism etc and I thought the book was going to turn into a lecture but that was not the case.

[ombugge]

I have followed in his footsteps, at least by sailing through the Cook’s Passage :

“Cook’s Passage” refers to the break in the Great Barrier Reef that Captain James Cook and his team used to navigate the ship, the Endeavour, through the reef system. The Endeavour ran aground on the reef on June 11, 1770, and Cook identified a passage through the reef. This passage is now known as Cook’s Passage.

PS> We did it several times, but the opposite way, entering from the open sea. (without running aground on Endeavour Reef)

Sailing through Cook’s Passage after 2pm on 13Aug1770

Stretching off east-north-east
Source: Cook’s Passage | netkingcol