I’ve read so much about maritime adventures this year, this seemed like a fitting continuation.  Hampton Sides describes the 3rd and final journey of Captain James Cook. Already widely celebrated – a hero, really – for his previous voyages, Sides describes how he ended up on this third journey, whose goal was to find Northwest Passage. He took the most circuitous route possible, sailing first around the Cape and then to New Zealand (!), Tahiti (!) and Hawaii (!) before making his way up to […]