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Boldly Going Where Captain Cook has Gone Before

by Tony Horwitz (Author) (edit contributors)

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Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the Captain's adventures and explore his embattled legacy in today's Pacific. Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of Confederates in the... read more

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  • - Following in the route of Captain Cook's historic voyages

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In it, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist travels to different parts of the world, following in the footsteps of explorer James Cook. The book compares the current conditions of the places Cook visited to what Cook documented at the time, and describes the different legacies Cook has left... read more

In it, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist travels to different parts of the world, following in the footsteps of explorer James Cook. The book compares the current conditions of the places Cook visited to what Cook documented at the time, and describes the different legacies Cook has left behind.

Horowitz begins with his experience as a volunteer deckhand on the replica of HM Bark Endeavour. Some of the places that Horowitz visits in following the footsteps of Cook, are Australia, the small island nation of Niue, the Society Islands, Tonga, New Zealand, the birth place and home of Cook in North Yorkshire England, Alaska and Hawaii.

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When I was thirteen, my parents bought a used sailboat, a ten-foot wooden dory that I christened Wet Dream.

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Prologue: The distance traveled
1. Pacific Northwest: One week before the mast
2. Tahiti: Sic transit Venus
3. To Bora-Bora: sold a pup
4. New Zealand: Warriors, Still
5. Botany Bay: In the pure state of nature
6. The Great Barrier Reef: Wrecked
7. Homeward Bound: The hospital ship
8. Savage Island: The hunt for red banana
9. Tonga: Where time begins, and goes back
10. North yorkshire: A plain, zealous man
12. Alaska: Outside men
13. Hawaii: The last island
14. Kealakekua Bay: A bad day on Black Rock
Epilogue: A period to his labours
Notes on sources
Selected bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Tony Horwitz (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0805065415
Page Count: 480

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  • Library of Congress: G420 C65 H67 2002
  • Dewey: 910.92

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Real life adventure

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • The Journals of Captain Cook
  • Captain Cook
  • Captain James Cook
  • Captain Cook: His life, voyages and discoveries
  • Farther Than Any Man
  • The Life Of Captain James Cook

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