Blue Latitudes Audio Book

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Author: Tony Horwitz Reader: Daniel Gerroll Take an entertaining look at the discoveries of a courageous explorer. Captain James Cook mapped the modern world, sailing 200,000 miles, reaching every continent and every ocean – at a time when most people didn't roam more than seven miles from their birthplace. This Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist vividly retraces Cook's voyages. "A stroke of genius... [Gerroll] has one of those velvety, golden voices I could listen to forever."—Philadelphia Inquirer   » Read More

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Publish Date: 09/12/2002 ISBN: 9780694523504

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Synopsis:

James Cook's three epic journey's in the eighteenth century were the last great voyages of discovery. When he embarked for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in 1779, Cook had explored more of the earth's surface than anyone in history. Adventuring in the captain's wake, Tony Horwitz relives his journeys and explores their legacy. He recaptures the rum-and-lash world of eighteenth century seafaring gang members, and the king of Tonga. Accompanied by a carousing Australian mate, he meets Miss Tahiti, visits the roughest bar in Alaska, and uncovers the secret behind the red-toothed warriors of Savage Island. Throughout, Horwitz also searches for Cook the man: a restless prodigy who fled his peasant boyhood, and later the luxury of Georgian London, for the privation and peril of sailing off the edge of the map. Read by Daniel Gerroll

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