false <![CDATA[Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171289407m/94529.jpg 94529 12 Captain James Cook's three epic 18th-century explorations of the Pacific Ocean were the last of their kind, literally completing the map of the world. Yet despite his monumental discoveries, principally in the South Pacific, Cook the man has remained an enigma. In retracing key legs of the circumnavigator's journey, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz chronicles the cultural and environmental havoc wrought by the captain's opening of the unspoiled Pacific to the West, as well as the alternately indifferent and passionate reactions Cook's name evokes during the writer's journeys through Polynesia, Australia, the Aleutians, and the explorer's native England. Horwitz skillfully weaves a biography and travel narrative with warm humor that is natural and human-scale, and his restless inquisitiveness quickly infects the reader. While striking dichotomies abound throughout that journey--Maori toughs who adopt Nazi imagery to symbolize their own fight against white domination, millennia-old Polynesian sexual mores that would shame the Reeperbahn, a sense that Christianity decimated native cultures at least as effectively as Western venereal diseases did--few are more poignant than the ones that abound in Cook's own life. This fine work is an adventurous reminder that answers to historical riddles are elusive at best--and seldom as compelling as the myriad new questions they pose. <I>--Jerry McCulley</I> 3963317 2002 Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before total:841|5:221|4:378|3:200|2:38|1:4| 841 3297 1174 170 4 3 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Thu Jul 03 10:28:05 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 05:46:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 07:48:24 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 21:58:10 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Nov 28 10:14:11 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 10:15:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 15:33:12 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 15:50:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 15 19:29:43 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 19:37:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 09:34:22 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 09:42:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 15:08:19 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 15:12:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 10:14:11 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 11:58:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 12 09:06:31 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 10:50:02 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 09:06:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Jan 02 15:51:07 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 17:00:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Fri Dec 21 06:56:55 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 06:58:04 -0800 2007 Confederates in the Attic, also by Tony Horwitz. I was vaguely aware of Captain Cook's voyages and his untimely demise, and was looking forward to learning more.

Horwitz alternates between recapping Cook's travels and telling about his own experiences fol...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jul 03 07:40:40 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 28 15:29:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 04 20:38:07 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 20:44:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 19:49:42 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 21:55:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 08 19:03:59 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 19:11:00 -0700 2009
The author follows the route Cook took in his sail around the world, much of the time accompanied by his drunk friend who flies in on occasion and is never without a bottle if h...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 30 19:57:53 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 16 08:15:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 14:05:22 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 10:56:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Dec 23 11:11:56 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 11:12:17 -0800 2008 Confederates in the Attic and got sucked in completely in his easy style of writing. He is one of those authors who makes reading nonfiction a delight.

There was much to learn about Captain Cook and his time. Horwitz weaves together two distinct threads: the ep...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 03 08:07:17 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 20 10:56:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 20:11:43 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 20:50:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=94529