![]() ![]() Poignant, probing, antic, and exhilarating, Blue Latitudes brings to life a man who helped create the global village we inhabit today. Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before. 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. ![]() ![]() His ships sailed 150,000 miles, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Tasmania to Oregon, from Easter Island to Siberia. Captain James Cooks three epic journeys in the eighteenth century were the last great voyages of discovery. 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. This book retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world.
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