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Praise for
Blue Latitudes
“Hilarious, brainy, and balanced…A trip with Horwitz is as good as it gets.”
—The Charlotte Observer
“Horwitz’s adventures pay illuminating tribute to the great navigator—to Captain Cook himself and to his intrepid eighteenth-century colleagues, including the improbably attractive Sir Joseph Banks. But most of all Blue Latitudes
offers clear-eyed, vivid, and highly entertaining reassurance that there are still outlandish worlds to be discovered.”
—Caroline Alexander, author of The Endurance:
Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
“Blue Latitudes
is a rollicking read that is also a sneaky work of scholarship, providing new and unexpected insights into the man who out-discovered Columbus. A terrific book—I inhaled it in one weekend.”
—Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea
“One of the best…full of humor…It is with people that Horwitz excels. As he demonstrated in Confederates in the Attic
, he has a gift for getting them to open up. A terrific reporter, Horwitz investigates how the places he visits have changed…. What he also does, and what makes this book so absorbing, is intersperse among all the details of life today in these far-flung places an elegant running account of Cook’s exploits.”
—The New York Times Book Review
(cover)
“Compelling…Horwitz is particularly convincing when he’s establishing just how harsh a sailor’s life could be in the 1700s, why most of them were drunk so much of the time, and why today’s mariners have it relatively easy…. Remarkable.”
—The Oregonian
(Portland)
“A rewarding and—trust me on this—witty tale of a remarkable explorer who now occupies a controversial place in history because of disease, greed, thievery, and prostitution that followed in his wake…Perhaps the highest praise of any book is that it takes you somewhere. Horwitz manages to do this on two levels, mingling history with a humorous travelogue.”
—The Mercury News
(San Jose)
“A swashbuckling history.”
—Newsday
“An entertaining and rewarding read. Horwitz remains an intriguing sketcher of characters, and there are plenty of aging hippies, burnt-out colonials, and out-and-out oddballs in his path. He’s still the master of the targeted anecdote or factoid…Charming…Blue Latitudes
stretches from Easter Island to Alaska, from Cape Horn to Indonesia. In Mr. Horwitz’s company, it seems all too short a trip.”
—Sunday Star-News
“Delightful…[Horwitz] is an observant traveler, with an eye for both the oddball and t ............

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