July 21st , 7 p.m.:-9 PM Book group

at Patty Evans's home 

Hampton Sides, The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. 

“The Wide Wide Sea” tells of Captain Cook's last journey to the Pacific (1779). From the NYT: "It is not so much a story of “first contact” as one of Cook reckoning with the fallout of what he and others had wrought in expanding the map of Europe’s power."

The Pratt Library has copies.

Email Susan Sterett (susanmsterett@gmail.com) if you need the address.

Open to new members! This group meets monthly at members’ homes.