The Wide Wide Sea
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What’s it about?
A masterful account of Captain Cook's final voyage, where the quest for the Northwest Passage collides with the ancient worlds of the Pacific, leading to a tragic cultural misunderstanding on a Hawaiian beach.
You’ll learn
- The limits of Enlightenment ideals
- The psychology of command and hubris
- Hawaiian cosmology and the god Lono
- The tragic cost of cultural collision