At the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., Amanda Bellows and Hampton Sides discussed with Frederick F. Wherry the details of explorers confronting the unknown. By profiling the lives of ten explorers in “The Explorers,” Bellows revises our understanding of who is called an explorer. In “The Wide Wide Sea,” Sides dives into the final voyage of Captain James Cook and its impact on Indigenous people.
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