Blue Latitudes
Subtitle: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Publisher: Picador
Published: August 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780312422608
Subjects: History - General History; Modern - 17th Century; General; Description And Travel; Discovery And Exploration (General); Oceania; History; Journeys; History: World; Expeditions & Discoveries; Travel / General; Modern - 18th Century; Voyages around the world; 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.