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. In it, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist travels to various parts of the world, following in the footsteps of explorer James. 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. Tony Horwitzs new book, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, is available now. Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (United States), or Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Australia), is a travel book by Tony Horwitz, published in 2002. 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 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. Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz 4.3 (22) Paperback (First Edition) 22.00 Paperback 22.00 eBook 12. Tony Horwitz vividly recounts Cook's voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice. By the time he died in Hawaii in 1779, the map of the world was substantially complete. When Cook set off for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. His books include Midnight Rising, A Voyage Long and Strange, Blue Latitudes, a national and New York Times bestseller about the Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook, Baghdad Without a Map, a national bestseller about the Middle East, and Confederates in the Attic, a national and New York Times bestseller about the Civil War.

His ships sailed 150,000 miles, from the Artic to the Antarctic, from Tasmania to Oregon, from Easter Island to Siberia. Captain James Cook's three epic journeys in the 18th century were the last great voyages of discovery.

Blue latitudes by tony horwitz