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1. Raising hare: a memoir

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Author:
Dalton, Chloe
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare.

2. The wide wide sea: imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook

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Author:
Sides, Hampton
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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"An epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day ... On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a...