Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone BeforeTwo 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 Attic works as a sailor aboard a replica of Cook's ship meets island kings and beauty queens and carouses the South Seas with a hilarious and disgraceful travel companion an Aussie named Roger. He also creates a brilliant portrait of Cook: an impoverished farmboy who became the greatest navigator in British history and forever changed the lands he touched. Poignant probing antic and exhilarating Blue Latitudes brings to life a man who helped create the global village we inhabit today.