Into the Blue Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

Biography / Memoir

By: Tony Horitz

480 pages, Maps

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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ISBN: 9780747564553 Paperback Oct 2003 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-3 weeks
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Captain James Cook's three epic journeys between 1768 and 1779 were the last great voyages of discovery. This text recounts his adventures, revisits the lands and peoples he discovered and assesses his legacy in the Pacific.

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Tony Horwitz, winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, is the best-selling author of CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC, BAGHDAD WITHOUT A MAP and ONE FOR THE ROAD. He has been a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and a staff writer for the NEW YORKER, and contributed to HARPER'S, THE NEW YORK TIMES and other publications. He lives with his wife and son in Virginia.

Biography / Memoir

By: Tony Horitz

480 pages, Maps

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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'Playful but never flippant, meticulously researched and occasionally moving, this is an unusual take on the legacy of an enigmatic captain it remains a fresh and likeable attempt to boldly go where few biographers have gone before' Daily Telegraph

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