Hampton Sides
Forfatter af Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
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Hampton Sides, contributing editor of "Outside" & editor of "The Wild File," is also the author of "Ghost Soldiers". He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Publisher Provided) Hampton Sides received a BA in history from Yale University. He is editor-at-large for Outside Magazine and has also written vis mere for National Geographic, The New Yorker, Esquire, Preservation, and Men's Journal. His magazine work has been nominated twice for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. He is the author of several books including Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound on His Trail, and In the Kingdom of Ice. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Author Hampton Sides at the 2018 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74237058
Værker af Hampton Sides
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West (2006) — Forfatter — 1,851 eksemplarer
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (2014) — Forfatter — 1,242 eksemplarer
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin (2010) — Forfatter; Fortæller, nogle udgaver — 916 eksemplarer
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle (2018) — Forfatter — 336 eksemplarer
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (2024) 106 eksemplarer
Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Nature (Outside Books) (2001) — Redaktør — 65 eksemplarer
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission {abridged audio} (2001) 32 eksemplarer
Stomping Grounds: A Pilgrim's Progress Through Eight American Subcultures (1992) — Forfatter — 29 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Sides, Hampton
- Juridisk navn
- Sides, W. Hampton
- Fødselsdato
- 1962
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Bopæl
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA - Uddannelse
- Yale University
- Erhverv
- journalist
- Organisationer
- Outside
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction
2002 Discover Award from Barnes & Noble - Kort biografi
- Hampton Sides (born 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American historian and journalist. He is the author of Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, and other bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction. Sides is editor-at-large for Outside magazine and has written for such periodicals as National Geographic, The New Yorker, Esquire, Men's Journal, and The Washington Post. His magazine work, collected in numerous published anthologies, has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing.
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Another excellent history by Hampton Sides - a thorough and thoughtful account of the last voyage of Captain James Cook (apparently the inspiration for the name James T. Kirk!). I found the descriptions of 18th-century Tasmania, various Pacific islands, and Alaska before the extinction of the Tasmanians, the reduction of the sea otter population to about 1,000 individuals by 1900, the Exxon Valdez disaster, etc. to be especially moving. It is also interesting to think about the degree to which we take our knowledge of geography for granted. Cook was the first to cross both the Antarctic and Arctic circles and among the many things that he was famous for included that he had shown that there was no Antarctic continent (he didn't go far enough south), and that ice formed in the Arctic Ocean from seawater and there could be no Northwest Passage.… (mere)
Finally a readable Captain Cook book written in modern narrative nonfiction form. Hampton Sides is one of the best of this genre. The pacing and proportion it's like a 14 hour movie that never flags. Captain Cook you can't get away from, he is named dropped all over the place, in places and in books. Yet, try to find good books about him and they are either hagiography or so detailed as to loose sight of the forest for the trees. He is a difficult subject because of the evils of colonialism; and Cook left very few written records other than ship logs, he was a reserved character in real life. Sides shows Cook to be a man torn by self-knowledge of despoiling native cultures, but also with no choice because of his mission. These contradictions drove Cook a little crazy in the end as he vacillates between benevolent bringer of civilization, and destroyer of worlds. Despite the evils of colonization, it still captures the imagination exploring at a continent-scale for the first time. Cooks third voyage was the longest distance and time wise of any exploratory journey to that time. This is a wonderful book about an amazing story by a remarkable writer.… (mere)
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**Mom found the hardcover version of this book in 2024 somewhere cheap and bought it for me to replace my paperback version.… (mere)