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The biographer may be busy writing or researching his own work, but he always finds time to connect writers to other writers.

A few weeks ago, the library of Cambridge’s Trinity College (home of the recently defaced Lord Balfour portrait) exhibited four Australian fishing spears. They are all that remain from a collection of 40-50 stolen by James Cook and the crew of HMB Endeavour in 1770 – during the first landing by Europeans at Botany Bay. Cook’s arrival wasn’t a peaceful affair: two members of the indigenous Gweagal people resisted the British landing, and one was shot as a result. Now, ...

In “The Wide Wide Sea,” Hampton Sides offers a fuller picture of the British explorer’s final voyage to the Pacific islands.

Hampton Sides also takes on the complex legacy of the British explorer | Culture

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. In recent decades, Cook has been vilified by some scholars and cultural revisionists for bringing European diseases, guns and colonization. Sides’ book is sure to rile some Indigenous groups in Hawaii and elsewhere in the Pacific Islands, who contend Cook ushered in the destruction of Pacific Island cultures.

A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the 2023 News & Documentary Emmy-winner for Outstanding Recorded News Program, hosted by Jane Pauley.

The British explorer who sailed the uncharted Pacific Ocean in the 1700s, and who was killed in Hawaii, initiated a period of colonization that obscured the histories of Native Islanders, a legacy that is being reexamined today.

In Hampton Sides' telling, this explorer's final mission, ending with his death on the shores of Hawaii's Big Island, has room for both condemnation and celebration.