Into the Blue by Tony Horwitz

Into the Blue by Tony Horwitz

Captain James Cook's three epic journeys between 1768 and 1779 were the last great voyages of discovery. Sailing some 170,000 miles, Cook's ships reached every continent and every ocean, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Kamchatka to Java to Easter Island to the coast of Oregon. Before Cook set off, one third of the world's map remained, simply, blank. By the time, he was done, there was little left to discover. Cook and his men were also among the first Europeans to encounter Pacific natives: hip-throbbing Tahitian dancers, New Zealand cannibals, Hawaiian surfers, Australian Aborigines sealed off from the rest of the world for thousands of years. Tony Horwitz vividly recounts these adventures, and revisits the lands and peoples Cook discovered to explore the captain's legacy in today's Pacific. Horwitz also has exotic and often comic adventures of his own, on land and at sea, including a stint as a working sailor aboard a replica of Cook's tall ship, the Endeavour.

Terry Coleman provides a penetrating and true picture of Nelson as we have never seen him beforeTony Horwitz vividly recounts Captain Cook's adventures, and revisits the lands and peoples Cook discovered to explore the Captain's legacy in today's Pacific. Horwitz also has exotic and often comic adventures of his own, on land and sea.

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.

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ISBN 13	9780747560470
ISBN 10	0747560471
Titel	Into the Blue
Autor	Tony Horwitz
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-09-16
Seitenanzahl	496
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.