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9780312422608

Blue Latitudes Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312422608

  • ISBN10:

    0312422601

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-08-01
  • Publisher: Picador

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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.

Author Biography

Tony Horwitz is the bestselling author of Confederates in the Attic, Baghdad Without a Map, and One for the Road. He is also a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who has worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and a staff writer for The New Yorker. He lives in Virginia with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their son, Nathaniel.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Distance Traveledp. 1
Pacific Northwest: One Week Before the Mastp. 9
Tahiti: Sic Transit Venusp. 42
To Bora-Bora: Sold a Pupp. 77
New Zealand: Warriors, Stillp. 101
Botany Bay: In the Pure State of Naturep. 140
The Great Barrier Reef: Wreckedp. 165
Homeward Bound: The Hospital Shipp. 199
Savage Island: The Hunt for Red Bananap. 214
Tonga: Where Time Begins, and Goes Backp. 248
North Yorkshire: A Plain, Zealous Manp. 282
London: Shipping Out, Againp. 315
Alaska: Outside Menp. 333
Hawaii: The Last Islandp. 375
Kealakekua Bay: A Bad Day on Black Rockp. 405
Epilogue: A Period to His Laboursp. 434
Notes on Sourcesp. 445
Selected Bibliographyp. 453
Acknowledgmentsp. 461
Indexp. 463
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