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Capt. Cook has been vilified by some scholars and cultural revisionists for bringing European diseases, guns and colonization. A new books suggests otherwise.

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

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.

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

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