Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
by:
Tony Horwitz (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780747560470 (0747560471)
Publish date: August 19th 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Travelogue,
Cultural,
World History,
Australia
Halfway through the book I was sick and tired of Captain Cook and his sailors. The story is so repetitive - visit island, visit bar, get drunk, ogle half-naked girls, get laid, repeat tomorrow at a different island. Admittedly this is probably exactly what they did but chapter after chapter of this ...
I knew very little about Captain James Cook, the late 18th century circumnavigator, going into the book which is kind of a shame considering all that he accomplished. My interest in fictional stories involving the British navy during the Napoleonic war, made the facts of Cook's career and voyages t...
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