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 favor.
In March 1779, as the American colonies were locked in their bitter struggle for independence from England, Benjamin Franklin—then in Paris to recruit France to the rebels’ cause—issued an unusual ...
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