![]() ![]() Poignant, probing, antic, and exhilarating, Blue Latitudes brings to life a man who helped create the global village we inhabit today. But the terrain to which he returned again and again was the American South, that Faulknerian landscape where past and present bleed into one another around. 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. Tony Horwitz vividly recounts Cooks voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice. In later works, Tony explored early America (A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World) and the Pacific (Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before). 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. ![]() Annotation: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone BeforeTwo centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the Captain’s adventures and explore his embattled legacy in today’s Pacific. Tony Horwitz earned his Pulitzer Prize in 1995, reporting for The Wall Street Journal on the bleak and awful working conditions of America’s low-wage earners embedding himself in a poultry.Subtitle: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before. ![]()
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