Full name: Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

Author: Tony Horwitz Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, History, Adventure, Biographies Culture: Australia Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon OpenLibrary eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312422608 0312422601

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. Similar books: In Search Of Robinson Crusoe by Tim Severin The Sindbad Voyage by Tim Severin A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz Midnight Rising by Tony Horwitz Dig 3ft NW by Sarah Murgatroyd The Spice Islands Voyage by Timothy Severin Great Plains by Ian Frazier The Majic Bus by Douglas Brinkley The Sinner's Grand Tour by Tony Perrottet Escape from the Antarctic by Ernest Shackleton Cook by Nicholas Thomas PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon Spinsters Abroad by Dea Birkett Endeavour by Peter Aughton Cities of Gold by Douglas Preston The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby Jaguars and Electric Eels by Alexander von Humboldt Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer