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- Book Title
- Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone before
- Publication Name
- Blue Latitudes
- Title
- Blue Latitudes
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780312422608
- ISBN
- 9780312422608
- Publisher
- Picador
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
- Topic
- Adventurers & Explorers, Essays & Travelogues, Oceania
- Release Date
- 01/08/2003
- Release Year
- 2003
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Features
- Revised
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 13.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world Captain James Cook's three epic journeys in the 18th century were the last great voyages of discovery. His ships sailed 150,000 miles, from the Artic to the Antarctic, from Tasmania to Oregon, from Easter Island to Siberia. When Cook set off for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in Hawaii in 1779, the map of the world was substantially complete. Tony Horwitz vividly recounts Cook's voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice. He also relives Cook's adventures by following in the captain's wake to places such as Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Great Barrier Reef to discover Cook's embattled legacy in the present day. Signing on as a working crewman aboard a replica of Cook's vessel, Horwitz experiences the thrill and terror of sailing a tall ship. He also explores Cook the man: an impoverished farmboy who broke through the barriers of his class and time to become the greatest navigator in British history. By turns harrowing and hilarious, insightful and entertaining, BLUE LATITUDES brings to life a man whose voyages helped create the 'global village' we know today.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312422601
ISBN-13
9780312422608
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2473547
Product Key Features
Book Title
Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone before
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Adventurers & Explorers, Essays & Travelogues, Oceania
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
G420.C65 H67 2002
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Reviews
"Thoroughly enjoyable. No writer has better captured the heroic enigma that was Captain James Cook than Tony Horwitz in this amiable and enthralling excursion around the Pacific." --Bill Bryson, author of In a Sunburned Country "Tony Horwitz's Blue Latitudes is one of the best. . . full of humor. . . an elegant running account of Cook's exploits." --The New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Part history, part travelogue--and mostly just great fun. . . This is history on a global scale, and Horwitz tells it surpassingly well." --Los Angeles Times "A tour de force of evocative history, serious scholarship, and compelling writing." --The Washington Post "Part Cook biography, part travelogue, and very much a stroke of genius." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Hilarious, brainy, and balanced. . . .A trip with Horwitz is as good as it gets." --The Charlotte Observer "Tony Horwitz has done it again. . . Keen insight, open-mindedness and laugh-out-loud humor." --San Francisco Chronicle "A staggering blend of historical research, character study, sociological analysis, and intriguing tales of travel." --The Boston Globe "Curiosity, intelligence, compassion and a sense of adventure. . . I love reading Tony Horwitz." --Chicago Tribune "Horwitz succeeds brilliantly in turning the English from stiff icons to flesh-and-blood human beings. The book's constant humor, honesty and judgment recall his own Confederates in the Attic and Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.. . . This book will keep you enthralled." --The Seattle Time, "Thoroughly enjoyable. No writer has better captured the heroic enigma that was Captain James Cook than Tony Horwitz in this amiable and enthralling excursion around the Pacific." -- Bill Bryson, author of In a Sunburned Country "Tony Horwitz's Blue Latitudes is one of the best. . . full of humor. . . an elegant running account of Cook's exploits." -- The New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Part history, part travelogue -- and mostly just great fun. . . This is history on a global scale, and Horwitz tells it surpassingly well." --Los Angeles Times "A tour de force of evocative history, serious scholarship, and compelling writing." -- The Washington Post "Part Cook biography, part travelogue, and very much a stroke of genius." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Hilarious, brainy, and balanced. . . .A trip with Horwitz is as good as it gets." -- The Charlotte Observer "Tony Horwitz has done it again. . . Keen insight, open-mindedness and laugh-out-loud humor." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A staggering blend of historical research, character study, sociological analysis, and intriguing tales of travel." -- The Boston Globe "Curiosity, intelligence, compassion and a sense of adventure. . . I love reading Tony Horwitz." -- Chicago Tribune "Horwitz succeeds brilliantly in turning the English from stiff icons to flesh-and-blood human beings. The book's constant humor, honesty and judgment recall his own Confederates in the Attic and Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. . . . This book will keep you enthralled." -- The Seattle Times, Tony Horwitz's Blue Latitudes is one of the best. . . full of humor. . . an elegant running account of Cook's exploits., Horwitz succeeds brilliantly in turning the English from stiff icons to flesh-and-blood human beings. The book's constant humor, honesty and judgment recall his own Confederates in the Attic and Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. . . . This book will keep you enthralled., Part history, part travelogue -- and mostly just great fun. . . This is history on a global scale, and Horwitz tells it surpassingly well., A staggering blend of historical research, character study, sociological analysis, and intriguing tales of travel., Thoroughly enjoyable. No writer has better captured the heroic enigma that was Captain James Cook than Tony Horwitz in this amiable and enthralling excursion around the Pacific., "Thoroughly enjoyable. No writer has better captured the heroic enigma that was Captain James Cook than Tony Horwitz in this amiable and enthralling excursion around the Pacific." --Bill Bryson, author of In a Sunburned Country "Tony Horwitz's Blue Latitudes is one of the best. . . full of humor. . . an elegant running account of Cook's exploits." -- The New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Part history, part travelogue--and mostly just great fun. . . This is history on a global scale, and Horwitz tells it surpassingly well." -- Los Angeles Times "A tour de force of evocative history, serious scholarship, and compelling writing." -- The Washington Post "Part Cook biography, part travelogue, and very much a stroke of genius." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Hilarious, brainy, and balanced. . . .A trip with Horwitz is as good as it gets." -- The Charlotte Observer "Tony Horwitz has done it again. . . Keen insight, open-mindedness and laugh-out-loud humor." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A staggering blend of historical research, character study, sociological analysis, and intriguing tales of travel." -- The Boston Globe "Curiosity, intelligence, compassion and a sense of adventure. . . I love reading Tony Horwitz." -- Chicago Tribune "Horwitz succeeds brilliantly in turning the English from stiff icons to flesh-and-blood human beings. The book's constant humor, honesty and judgment recall his own Confederates in the Attic and Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. . . . This book will keep you enthralled." -- The Seattle Time, "Thoroughly enjoyable. No writer has better captured the heroic enigma that was Captain James Cook than Tony Horwitz in this amiable and enthralling excursion around the Pacific." -- Bill Bryson, author of In a Sunburned Country "Tony Horwitz's Blue Latitudes is one of the best. . . full of humor. . . an elegant running account of Cook's exploits." -- The New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Part history, part travelogue -- and mostly just great fun. . . This is history on a global scale, and Horwitz tells it surpassingly well." --Los Angeles Times "A tour de force of evocative history, serious scholarship, and compelling writing." --The Washington Post "Part Cook biography, part travelogue, and very much a stroke of genius." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Hilarious, brainy, and balanced. . . .A trip with Horwitz is as good as it gets." -- The Charlotte Observer "Tony Horwitz has done it again. . . Keen insight, open-mindedness and laugh-out-loud humor." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A staggering blend of historical research, character study, sociological analysis, and intriguing tales of travel." -- The Boston Globe "Curiosity, intelligence, compassion and a sense of adventure. . . I love reading Tony Horwitz." -- Chicago Tribune "Horwitz succeeds brilliantly in turning the English from stiff icons to flesh-and-blood human beings. The book's constant humor, honesty and judgment recall his own Confederates in the Attic and Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. . . . This book will keep you enthralled." -- The Seattle Time
Table of Content
Prologue: The Distance Traveled 1. Pacific Northwest: One Week Before the Mast 2. Tahiti: Sic Transit Venus 3. To Bora-Bora: Sold a Pup 4. New Zealand: Warriors, Still 5. Botany Bay: In the Pure State of Nature 6. The Great Barrier Reef: Wrecked 7. Homeward Bound: The Hospital Ship 8. Savage Island: The Hunt for Red Bananas 9. Tonga: Where Time Begins, and Goes Back 10. North Yorkshire: A Plain, Zealous Man 11. London: Shipping Out, Again 12. Alaska: Outside Men 13. Hawaii: The Last Island 14. Kealakekua Bay: A Bad Day on Black Rock Epilogue: A Period to His Labours Notes on Sources Selected Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2002-024133
Dewey Decimal
910/.92
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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