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Blue Latitudes, Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed By
- Tony Horwitz
- Signed
- Yes
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780805065411
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805065415
ISBN-13
9780805065411
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1661316
Product Key Features
Book Title
Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone before
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Adventurers & Explorers, Essays & Travelogues, Oceania
Publication Year
2002
Features
Revised
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
28.8 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-024133
Reviews
" Blue Latitudes is a rollicking read that is also a sneaky work of scholarship, providing new and unexpected insights into the man who out-discovered Columbus. A terrific book--I inhaled it in one weekend." --Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
910/.92
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
G420.C65H67 2002
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