Blue Latitudes Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

by Horwitz, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780312422608
• ISBN10: 0312422601
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

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 Traveled	p. 1
Pacific Northwest: One Week Before the Mast	p. 9
Tahiti: Sic Transit Venus	p. 42
To Bora-Bora: Sold a Pup	p. 77
New Zealand: Warriors, Still	p. 101
Botany Bay: In the Pure State of Nature	p. 140
The Great Barrier Reef: Wrecked	p. 165
Homeward Bound: The Hospital Ship	p. 199
Savage Island: The Hunt for Red Banana	p. 214
Tonga: Where Time Begins, and Goes Back	p. 248
North Yorkshire: A Plain, Zealous Man	p. 282
London: Shipping Out, Again	p. 315
Alaska: Outside Men	p. 333
Hawaii: The Last Island	p. 375
Kealakekua Bay: A Bad Day on Black Rock	p. 405
Epilogue: A Period to His Labours	p. 434
Notes on Sources	p. 445
Selected Bibliography	p. 453
Acknowledgments	p. 461
Index	p. 463
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