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Name: Blue Latitudes

Full title: Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Author: Tony Horwitz
Year: 2002
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Popularity: 3.1
Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, History, Adventure, Biographies
Culture: Australia

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ISBN:
9780312422608
9780694523504
9780786250318
9780805065411
9780965047395
0312422601
069452350X
0786250313
0805065415
0965047393
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.
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