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Into the Blue - Tony Horwitz

Into the Blue

Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
496 Seiten
2003 | New edition
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-6455-3 (ISBN)
CHF 31,90 inkl. MwSt
Captain James Cook's three epic journeys between 1768 and 1779 reached every continent and ocean, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Kamchatka to Java to Easter Island to the coast of Oregon. This work retraces the great voyages of Captain James Cook, the British farmboy who drew the map of the modern world.
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. With great wit and insight, Tony Horwitz vividly recounts these adventures, and revisits the lands and peoples Cook discovered to explore the captain's legacy in today's Pacific. In the course of his explorations, 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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.10.2003
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 394 g
Einbandart Paperback
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Reisen Reiseberichte Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 0-7475-6455-8 / 0747564558
ISBN-13 978-0-7475-6455-3 / 9780747564553
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