The Wide Sea by Hampton sides. I love this book. A very close look at the third and final expedition for Captain James Cook. He had a mission to find the Northwest Passage.

He gets into that belief at the time that this passage existed as did many other

explorers and scholars they discover Hawaii sort of and the interaction among the society islands.

The wide wide sea, Hampton Sides joins us now. This is before I bring Hampton in and ask him a

million questions about this book. This is the kind of book that I didn't want

to finish because I always wanted there to be pages remaining.

It's the ultimate compliment.

I was going too fast initially and ultimately, I don't want to say unfortunately I finished it,

but ultimately the story was over and Hampton joins us now.

This is incredible work.

This is right up my alley, and this turned out to be one of my all-time favorites.

So thanks for your work on this.

My pleasure, it's good to be with you.

So we take a look at Captain James Cook, historical figure,

and I want to just kind of go to the point that he was at in his life that started.

I believe what you say is kind of a third major voyage

of exploration that starts in 1776.

So where was he at this point in his life?

Well, he was a celebrity in London at that time.

He had been around the world twice,

had explored much of the South Pacific,

had blasted a bunch of myths about a supercontinent that was supposed to exist down at the bottom of the world,

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