num_pages: 480
description: 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.
language: English
title: Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
titlecomplete: Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
characters: James Cook
genres: Australia, Historical, Biography, Travel, World History, Travelogue, Nonfiction, Adventure, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 9839
publisher: Picador USA