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In his fateful final Pacific voyage, Captain James Cook failed to find an ocean passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans but he did find Pacific islands, peoples and cultures unknown to Europeans
"A lot of things started going wrong from the very beginning," historian Hampton Sides says of Cook's last voyage, which ended in the British explorer's violent death on the island of Hawaii in 1779.
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Big names such as Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Celeste Ng, Scott Turow and Emma Donoghue contribute
Author: Julian Sancton Crown, 307 pages, $30 Going to the continent of Antarctica (on a three-year voyage) may not be everyone’s idea of a great time — although more than 50,000 people cruised to the continent during the austral summer in 2018-2019 — but for commandant Adrien de Gerlache, 31, who amazingly never learned to swim, and a handful of sailors, it was their longstanding dream. “Madhouse at the End of the Earth” author Julian Sancton has written a masterpiece. He writes about culture and travel for Departures magazine as a senior features editor and is reported to have writ...