The remains of the historic HMS Endeavour have been definitively located at a site near Newport, Rhode Island. The ship was ...

Captain James Cook's famous ship, the HM Bark Endeavour, was positively identified off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, ...

Hampton Sides, the bestselling author of "Ghost Soldiers," "In the Kingdom of Ice" and "On Desperate Ground," returns with "The Wide Wide Sea" (Doubleday), the story of Captain James Cook ...

It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook. It stands just ... Sides is author of the new book, "The Wide Wide Sea," documenting Cook's final and fateful voyage.

Sides’ latest book, “The Wide Wide Sea,” depicts the fatal third voyage of 18th Century British naval captain James Cook. The book recently debuted at number 3 on the New York Times ...

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 ...

Sides’s 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 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 ...

Should they encounter the British captain James Cook, Franklin wrote ... “The Wide Wide Sea,” the 6-foot 3-inch Cook was “a hard person—hard to please, hard to fool, hard to reach ...

His book is The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. Ken Tucker reviews Beyoncé's album Cowboy Carter.

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 ...