Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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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 navi
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Manufacturer: Picador
Release date: 1 August 2003
ISBN-10 : 0312422601 | ISBN-13: 9780312422608
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Release date: 1 August 2003
ISBN-10 : 0312422601 | ISBN-13: 9780312422608