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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

Tony Horwitz

4.04/5 (9208 ratings)

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Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone BeforeTwo 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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Pages:: 480 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Picador USA

Edition:: First, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0312422601

ISBN13:: 9780312422608

kindle Asin:: B003JH86KC

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

Tony Horwitz

4.04/5 (9208 ratings)

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Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone BeforeTwo 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.

Format:

Pages:: 480 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Picador USA

Edition:: First, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0312422601

ISBN13:: 9780312422608

kindle Asin:: B003JH86KC

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