Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

The book follows Tony Horwitz as he retraces Captain Cook's voyages across the Pacific two centuries later, working aboard a replica of Cook's ship. Horwitz encounters island kings and beauty queens while exploring Cook's legacy in the modern South Seas. The narrative also examines Cook himself, from his origins as an impoverished farmboy to becoming one of history's greatest navigators whose expeditions forever changed the lands he visited.