Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage. Cook is a ... elusive Northwest Passage. His third expedition consisted of 180 ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery ... In just over a decade he would add one third to the map of the known world.

After English Captain Cook was killed by Hawaiians at Kealakekua, Hawaii, on Feb. 14, 1779, Captain Clerke took command of ...