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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

By Tony Horwitz

Book information

Publisher
Picador
Year
2002
ISBN
9780312422608, 0312422601
ASIN
B003JH86KC
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1499193 bytes)
Pages
496\0
Time added
2016-03-01 04:17:54

Description

Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the Captain's adventures and explore his embattled legacy in today's Pacific. Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of Confederates in the Attic, works as a sailor aboard a replica of Cook's ship, meets island kings and beauty queens, and carouses the South Seas with a hilarious and disgraceful travel companion, an Aussie named Roger. He also creates a brilliant portrait of Cook: an impoverished farmboy who became the greatest navigator in British history and forever changed the lands he touched. Poignant, probing, antic, and exhilarating, Blue Latitudes brings to life a man who helped create the global village we inhabit today.

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