Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going The place Captain Cook dinner Has Gone Earlier than

In an exhilarating story of historic journey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Confederates within the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook dinner, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the fashionable world

Captain James Cook dinner's three epic journeys within the 18th century had been the final nice 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 dinner set off for the Pacific in 1768, a 3rd of the globe remained clean. By the point he died in Hawaii in 1779, the map of the world was considerably full.

Tony Horwitz vividly recounts Cook dinner's voyages and the unique scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice. He additionally relives Cook dinner's adventures by following within the captain's wake to locations reminiscent of Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Nice Barrier Reef to find Cook dinner's embattled legacy within the current day. Signing on as a working crewman aboard a reproduction of Cook dinner's vessel, Horwitz experiences the joys and terror of crusing a tall ship. He additionally explores Cook dinner the person: an impoverished farmboy who broke via the limitations of his class and time to turn out to be the best navigator in British historical past.

By turns harrowing and hilarious, insightful and entertaining, BLUE LATITUDES brings to life a person whose voyages helped create the 'international village' we all know at this time.