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When Hampton Sides is working on a project, it would be safe to say he travels in time.

鈥淚 try to tune out the present world for most of the day. It鈥檚 an intrusion and a distraction. I try to stay immersed in the times I鈥檓 writing about,鈥� Sides says. 鈥淎nd now more than ever, I want to stay there all day. But I know as a taxpayer, a voter, a husband and a father, and a citizen of the world, I do have to come up for air sometimes and pay attention to what鈥檚 happening now.鈥�

The Santa Fe-based author was invited in May to sit down with former Texas congressman Beto O鈥橰ourke in Louisville, Kentucky, as part of the PBS series 鈥淕reat Conversations.鈥� The longtime series is in its 25th season and showcases an array of renowned authors and interviewers from a wide range of fields. The candid conversations take place before a live audience and are filmed at the Kentucky Author Forum in Louisville.

The episode with Sides and O鈥橰ourke will air at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, on World, channel 5.4. It will also be available to stream on the PBS app.

The pair talk about Sides鈥� most recent book, 鈥淭he Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.鈥�

While the research process is slow, Sides said he tends to write quickly.

鈥淚t takes me forever to get the structure, tone and pacing figured out. And with 鈥楾he Wide Wide Sea,鈥� which reaches further back in time than any of my other books, it took me a good while to absorb the zeitgeist, the mentality and the basic syntax and manners of speech of Georgian England,鈥� Sides says. 鈥淭here were a lot of stumbling and false starts in those early chapters as I struggled to get it right.鈥�

Sides relied on historical documents and journals from Cook and his crew 鈥� oftentimes trying to tone down some of the writing.

鈥淚 try to strike a balance between letting the raw documents speak for themselves and my own efforts to bring them into focus in a way that will engage modern readers,鈥� Sides says. 鈥淢y intent is to make sepia-toned history come alive in Technicolor, but still somehow keep the original grit and grime and blemishes intact. I鈥檝e found it鈥檚 often more of a question of what you leave out than what you put in.鈥�

After time spent researching, Sides did have a lot of information to pull from. He also had many 鈥渁-ha鈥� moments.

鈥淭he learning curve was so steep for me, because I knew so little about 18th century ship architecture, about Polynesian culture, about the fields of cartography and navigation, or the natural history of so many of these places Cook visited on his voyages,鈥� Sides admits. 鈥淚t was all an 鈥榓-ha moment,鈥� especially when I finally began to assemble these different puzzle pieces into something larger 鈥� which was a deepening appreciation of the modern world, the global economy, and the full sweep and impact of the colonial enterprise.鈥�

Sides says he has confidence in himself as an editor and ruthlessly edits himself as he writes.

鈥淚n some perverse and masochistic way I enjoy slashing and whittling down my words. I鈥檓 proud to say that I turn in chapters that are pretty clean and polished,鈥� he says. 鈥淎nd my wife, who was an editor for years for PBS鈥� 鈥楳acNeil Lehrer Report鈥� and NPR, helps me in countless ways to get my manuscript to the finish line. My editor at Doubleday is incredible, too, but he鈥檚 more focused on larger strategic questions 鈥� of story arc, character development, and the big picture of what the narrative is trying to accomplish.鈥�

Living in Santa Fe for more than three decades now, Sides says the area has influenced him in large and small ways.

鈥淚 love the place, I love the people, I love the history, and I love the topography,鈥� Sides says. 鈥淎nd I sometimes feel I live in an expat community, an island surrounded by oceans of land, full of mavericks and renegades and artists of all kinds, who thrive on looking at the world in a way that鈥檚 agreeably askew.鈥�

Adrian Gomez is a freelance writer for the 近距离内射合集. He works for the New Mexico Film Office, focusing on industry research.