Name: The Wide Wide Sea with Hampton Sides!
Start: 2024-05-14T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-14T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 1312 E Cary St

History lovers, this is for you! Hampton Sides will be in conversation with local author Dean King at the store.
About this Event

History lovers, this is for you! Hampton Sides will be in conversation with local author Dean King at the store.

FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

About the Book:

Captain James Cook has been viewed by millions as both hero and villain, but his expeditions were enormously consequential. He was a peerless navigator and cartographer, a fearless and able naval captain, an embodiment of Enlightenment values and scientific acumen, and a figure ahead of his time. Yet the arrival of his ships heralded invasion, disease, colonization, and cultural decimation. Hampton both illuminates the past and shows how events hundreds of years ago not only shaped our world but still resonate today. Hampton traveled all over the world – Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Alaska and beyond - during the process of writing the book, and the result is this doggedly researched and mesmerizing account of Cook’s last voyage.

About the Author:

HAMPTON SIDES is the author of the bestselling narrative histories Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On His Trail, In the Kingdom of Ice, and On Desperate Ground. Hampton has been a contributor to Outside, National Geographic, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and many other newspapers and magazines. A native of Memphis and a Yale graduate, Hampton is a board member of the Society of American Historians and has an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Colorado College. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Dean King is an award-winning author of ten nonfiction books, including Skeletons on the Zahara, Unbound, Patrick O’Brian: A Life Revealed, and The Feud. His writing has appeared in Granta, Garden & Gun, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, New York magazine, and The New York Times. He is the chief storyteller in two History Channel documentaries and a producer of its series Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning. An internationally known speaker, King has appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, ABC’s World News Tonight, PBS’s American Experience, BBC Radio, Arte TV France/Germany, and at TEDx. For more info, visit DeanHKing.com.