The Wide Wide Sea Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

The book is now out and available, publishes on April 9th, called the Wide, Wide Sea, Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.

and if you are interested in pre-contact contact era Alaska, Hawaii, which wind up being coupled together in unexpected ways, still today, I find so much cross-colonial exchange between Alaska and Hawaii, they kind of have a pacific thing going on.

This book explores that. We're gonna discuss it uh today. I haven't, I usually try to, I do a pretty good job, I usually try to read um read books before we talk about them, but I haven't gotten to it yet. But you have such a trusted track record I'm just gonna come out right now and say it's good.

And uh, scholars say, let's have one follow that up right. I, that sounds like something everyone would do.

and um, it's about a captain who's got having an existential crisis, which Cook was on this third voyage because the book is about his third voyage.