VANCOUVER, Wash.- David L. Nicandri, recently retired director of the Washington State Historical Society, will present 鈥淐ook in the High Latitudes of the Pacific: Antidote to the Palm Tree Paradigm鈥 6 鈥 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Multimedia Classroom building, room 6 at Washington State University Vancouver. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Nicandri will present research on Captain James Cook鈥檚 search for Northwest Passage in the late 18th century in light of present-day understandings of climate change. If Cook, looking for a Northwest Passage, had sailed in 2011 instead of 1778, he would have passed through the Canadian archipelago into Baffin Bay, through Davis Strait and into the Atlantic. Global warming reveals the elusive Northwest Passage.
Nicandri served for nearly 25 years as director of the Washington State Historical Society. He also served as the chief curator of the Washington State Capital Museum. Nicandri holds a master鈥檚 degree in history from the University of Idaho and has two honorary doctorates from Gonzaga University (2001) and the University of Puget Sound (2007). He has been studying James Cook鈥檚 journals with a view to understanding changes in the landscape of the Pacific Northwest.
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