Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

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Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Long 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 lately’s Pacific. Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and creator of Confederates within the Attic, works as a sailor aboard a replica of Cook’s ship, meets island kings and attractiveness queens, and carouses the South Seas with a hilarious and disgraceful trip companion, an Aussie named Roger. He also creates a brilliant portrait of Cook: an impoverished farmboy who was the best navigator in British history and perpetually changed the lands he touched. Poignant, probing, antic, and exhilarating, Blue Latitudes brings to life a man who helped create the worldwide village we inhabit lately.

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