Blue Latitudes
Subtitle: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: October 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780805065411
Subjects: Modern - 18th Century; Voyages around the world; Expeditions & Discoveries; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Travel; Oceania; Adventurers & Explorers; Travel / Adventure; 1728-1779; Cook, James,; Discovery and exploration
First sentence: When I was thirteen, my parents bought a used sailboat, a ten-foot wooden dory that I christened Wet Dream.