Blue Latitudes Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

Name: Blue Latitudes Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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ISBN: 9780312422608

ISBN-10: 0312422601

ISBN-13: 9780312422608

Edition: 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Tony Horwitz

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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…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 8/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.28" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Prologue: The Distance Traveled



Pacific Northwest: One Week Before the Mast



Tahiti: Sic Transit Venus



To Bora-Bora: Sold a Pup



New Zealand: Warriors, Still



Botany Bay: In the Pure State of Nature



The Great Barrier Reef: Wrecked



Homeward Bound: The Hospital Ship



Savage Island: The Hunt for Red Banana



Tonga: Where Time Begins, and Goes Back



North Yorkshire: A Plain, Zealous Man



London: Shipping Out, Again



Alaska: Outside Men



Hawaii: The Last Island



Kealakekua Bay: A Bad Day on Black Rock


Epilogue: A Period to His Labours


Notes on Sources


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index