Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)

from ms.c.earthsci

Great read if you like travel and / or history. I really came to appreciate how hard it was to explore the world back in Cook's days, how little he is really admired, and how much the Europeans messed up the world! After I finished the book I had a better understanding of why the explorers and th...

from ms.c.earthsci

Great read if you like travel and / or history. I really came to appreciate how hard it was to explore the world back in Cook's days, how little he is really admired, and how much the Europeans messed up the world! After I finished the book I had a better understanding of why the explorers and th...

from kaitanya64

Horwitz sets out to trace the voyages of Captain Cook. Blending history with travelogue, he does cover most of the major points of Cook's voyages and also touches on the many controversies surrounding Cook's legacy today. I was a bit disappointed that Horwitz's travel narrative is not particularl...

from gmillar

I enjoyed this book immensely. I know many of the places described and it was fun to go back there with Tony and Roger. I liked the friendly, non-judgmental style of writing used. I liked the banter between Tony and Roger and knew a lot of guys like Roger when I was in the Navy. All of that was f...

from cyclops1771

At time humorous, at times snarky, at times unbearably saddening. Horowitz's typical blend of travelogue with history, he muses of the effect and result of Captain Cook and the results of mixing colonial Europeans powers with the native lifestyle. It is similar to the re-writing of Columbus as th...