Blue Latitudes
Author(s): Tony Horowitz
Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
- : Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
- : 0.38
- : August 2003
- : 210mm X 142mm X 24mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Tony Horowitz
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 910.41
- : 480
- : Australasian & Pacific history: BCE to c 1750 CE; Geographical discovery & exploration; World history: c 1500 to c 1750