The Wide Wide Sea: An Evening with Hampton Sides

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Monday, Jun 24, 2024  6pm - 8pm

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Bright Side Bookshop is excited to host Hampton Sides on Monday, June 24th at 6:00pm.

Join regional bestselling author Hampton Sides for a book talk and signing of his new book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Doubleday, April 9th, 2024).

A ticket purchase is required for admission to this event and includes admission for one person and a hardcover copy of The Wide Wide Sea ($35.00 retail price). You may also purchase a plus one ticket for $5 (returned to you as a $5 store voucher).

HAMPTON SIDES is best-known for his gripping non-fiction adventure stories set in war or depicting epic expeditions of exploration. He is the author of the bestselling narrative histories Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On His Trail, In the Kingdom of Ice, and On Desperate Ground. His most recent work,The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, will be published in April 2024 from Doubleday. Hampton has been a contributor to Outside, National Geographic, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and many other newspapers and magazines. His journalistic work, collected in numerous published anthologies, has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. A native of Memphis and a Yale graduate, Hampton is a board member of the Society of American Historians and the Author’s Guild, and he was a recent Miller Distinguished Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute. He has been a resident fellow at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Aspen Institute, the Ucross Foundation, and Stanford University. He has an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Colorado College. Hampton lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.