Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Horwitz TonyPaperback

In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern worldCaptain James Cook's three epic journeys in the 18th century were the last great voyages of discovery. When Cook set off for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. His ships sailed 150,000 miles, from the Artic to the Antarctic, from Tasmania to Oregon, from Easter Island to Siberia.

He also relives Cook's adventures by following in the captain's wake to places such as Tahiti, Savage Island, By the time he died in Hawaii in 1779, the map of the world was substantially complete.Tony Horwitz vividly recounts Cook's voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice.