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PublisherPicador
ISBN-100312422601
ISBN-139780312422608
eBay Product ID (ePID)2473547
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone before
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicAdventurers & Explorers, Essays & Travelogues, Expeditions & Discoveries, Oceania
IllustratorYes
FeaturesRevised
GenreTravel, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorTony Horwitz
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight13.4 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-024133
Reviews"Thoroughly enjoyable. 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. . . full of humor. . . an elegant running account of Cook's exploits." --The New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Part history, part travelogue--and mostly just great fun. . . This is history on a global scale, and Horwitz tells it surpassingly well." --Los Angeles Times "A tour de force of evocative history, serious scholarship, and compelling writing." --The Washington Post "Part Cook biography, part travelogue, and very much a stroke of genius." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Hilarious, brainy, and balanced. . . .A trip with Horwitz is as good as it gets." --The Charlotte Observer "Tony Horwitz has done it again. . . Keen insight, open-mindedness and laugh-out-loud humor." --San Francisco Chronicle "A staggering blend of historical research, character study, sociological analysis, and intriguing tales of travel." --The Boston Globe "Curiosity, intelligence, compassion and a sense of adventure. . . I love reading Tony Horwitz." --Chicago Tribune "Horwitz succeeds brilliantly in turning the English from stiff icons to flesh-and-blood human beings. The book's constant humor, honesty and judgment recall his own Confederates in the Attic and Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.. . . This book will keep you enthralled." --The Seattle Time, "Thoroughly enjoyable. 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. . . full of humor. . . an elegant running account of Cook's exploits." -- The New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Part history, part travelogue -- and mostly just great fun. . . This is history on a global scale, and Horwitz tells it surpassingly well." --Los Angeles Times "A tour de force of evocative history, serious scholarship, and compelling writing." -- The Washington Post "Part Cook biography, part travelogue, and very much a stroke of genius." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Hilarious, brainy, and balanced. . . .A trip with Horwitz is as good as it gets." -- The Charlotte Observer "Tony Horwitz has done it again. . . Keen insight, open-mindedness and laugh-out-loud humor." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A staggering blend of historical research, character study, sociological analysis, and intriguing tales of travel." -- The Boston Globe "Curiosity, intelligence, compassion and a sense of adventure. . . I love reading Tony Horwitz." -- Chicago Tribune "Horwitz succeeds brilliantly in turning the English from stiff icons to flesh-and-blood human beings. The book's constant humor, honesty and judgment recall his own Confederates in the Attic and Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. . . . This book will keep you enthralled." -- The Seattle Times, Tony Horwitz's Blue Latitudes is one of the best. . . full of humor. . . an elegant running account of Cook's exploits., Horwitz succeeds brilliantly in turning the English from stiff icons to flesh-and-blood human beings. The book's constant humor, honesty and judgment recall his own Confederates in the Attic and Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. . . . This book will keep you enthralled., Part history, part travelogue -- and mostly just great fun. . . This is history on a global scale, and Horwitz tells it surpassingly well., A staggering blend of historical research, character study, sociological analysis, and intriguing tales of travel., Thoroughly enjoyable. 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., "Thoroughly enjoyable. 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. . . full of humor. . . an elegant running account of Cook's exploits." -- The New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Part history, part travelogue--and mostly just great fun. . . This is history on a global scale, and Horwitz tells it surpassingly well." -- Los Angeles Times "A tour de force of evocative history, serious scholarship, and compelling writing." -- The Washington Post "Part Cook biography, part travelogue, and very much a stroke of genius." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Hilarious, brainy, and balanced. . . .A trip with Horwitz is as good as it gets." -- The Charlotte Observer "Tony Horwitz has done it again. . . Keen insight, open-mindedness and laugh-out-loud humor." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A staggering blend of historical research, character study, sociological analysis, and intriguing tales of travel." -- The Boston Globe "Curiosity, intelligence, compassion and a sense of adventure. . . I love reading Tony Horwitz." -- Chicago Tribune "Horwitz succeeds brilliantly in turning the English from stiff icons to flesh-and-blood human beings. The book's constant humor, honesty and judgment recall his own Confederates in the Attic and Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. . . . This book will keep you enthralled." -- The Seattle Time, "Thoroughly enjoyable. 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. . . full of humor. . . an elegant running account of Cook's exploits." -- The New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Part history, part travelogue -- and mostly just great fun. . . This is history on a global scale, and Horwitz tells it surpassingly well." --Los Angeles Times "A tour de force of evocative history, serious scholarship, and compelling writing." --The Washington Post "Part Cook biography, part travelogue, and very much a stroke of genius." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Hilarious, brainy, and balanced. . . .A trip with Horwitz is as good as it gets." -- The Charlotte Observer "Tony Horwitz has done it again. . . Keen insight, open-mindedness and laugh-out-loud humor." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A staggering blend of historical research, character study, sociological analysis, and intriguing tales of travel." -- The Boston Globe "Curiosity, intelligence, compassion and a sense of adventure. . . I love reading Tony Horwitz." -- Chicago Tribune "Horwitz succeeds brilliantly in turning the English from stiff icons to flesh-and-blood human beings. The book's constant humor, honesty and judgment recall his own Confederates in the Attic and Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. . . . This book will keep you enthralled." -- The Seattle Time
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal910/.92
Table Of ContentPrologue: The Distance Traveled 1. Pacific Northwest: One Week Before the Mast 2. Tahiti: Sic Transit Venus 3. To Bora-Bora: Sold a Pup 4. New Zealand: Warriors, Still 5. Botany Bay: In the Pure State of Nature 6. The Great Barrier Reef: Wrecked 7. Homeward Bound: The Hospital Ship 8. Savage Island: The Hunt for Red Bananas 9. Tonga: Where Time Begins, and Goes Back 10. North Yorkshire: A Plain, Zealous Man 11. London: Shipping Out, Again 12. Alaska: Outside Men 13. Hawaii: The Last Island 14. Kealakekua Bay: A Bad Day on Black Rock Epilogue: A Period to His Labours Notes on Sources Selected Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisIn 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 NumberG420.C65 H67 2002
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- 19. Jun. 2020
Good historical account and then some....
Very interesting to read about Cook's voyages and the travels the author pursued to go to same places as Cook. Too bad history in school wasn't this interesting!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 09. Mär. 2022
Sadly, A Flop from Horowitz
Extremely boring compared to these authors other books. Was very disappointed.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 28. Sep. 2024
Good read
Good valueBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
