Ebook {Epub PDF} Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz

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 traveling in the captain's wake to such places as Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Great Barrier Reef along the way, he discovers Cook's embattled legacy in the present bltadwin.ru Interaction Count: BLUE LATITUDES. BOLDLY GOING WHERE CAPTAIN COOK HAS GONE BEFORE. Two centuries after James Cook’s epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a 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 . Tony Horwitz has a formula. Pick an historical figure and retrace his steps. He does this to great effect with Spying on the South, but I'd say somewhat less successfully with Blue Latitudes. Here he retraces the steps of Captain James Cook who made serveral sea voyages exploring the Pacific in the late bltadwin.ru by: 9.

Tony Horwitz -. Blue Latitudes. In this humorous, educational, and perceptive historical travelogue, Horwitz "boldly goes where Captain Cook has gone before." Readers will find this account informative and entertaining from the first page to the last. Horwitz's sidekick along most of the way is the usually drunk, and always sarcastic, Roger. Tony Horwitz has a formula. Pick an historical figure and retrace his steps. He does this to great effect with Spying on the South, but I'd say somewhat less successfully with Blue Latitudes. Here he retraces the steps of Captain James Cook who made serveral sea voyages exploring the Pacific in the late s. Tony Horwitz is the bestselling author of Confederates in the Attic, Baghdad Without a Map, and One for the bltadwin.ru is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and a staff writer for The New bltadwin.ru lives in Virginia with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their son, Nathaniel.

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 traveling in the captain's wake to such places as Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Great Barrier Reef along the way, he discovers Cook's embattled legacy in the present day. No writer has better captured the heroic enigma that was Captain James Cook than Tony Horwitz in this amiable and enthralling excursion around the Pacific.” —Bill Bryson, author of In a Sunburned Country “Tony Horwitz's Blue Latitudes is one of the best. Blue Latitudes, written in , is an entertaining mix of history and travel journalism, in which Horwitz visits many of the farflung locales "discovered" by Captain Cook during his three journeys of exploration to the Pacific Ocean in the 18th century. Horwitz alternates between chapters in which he gives us a fair.