Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

ISBN-13: 9780747564553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 496 str.

Tony Horwitz

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"Playful but never flippant, meticulously researched and occasionally moving, this is an unusual take on the legacy of an enigmatic captain- it remains a fresh and likeable attempt to boldly go where few biographers have gone before." (Daily Telegraph )

O autorze

Tony Horwitz, geboren in Washington D.C., hat als Auslandskorrespondent für das Wall Street Journal aus den Krisengebieten der Welt berichtet, war Autor des New Yorker und ist 1995 mit dem Pulitzerpreis ausgezeichnet worden. Nachdem er zehn Jahre in Sydney verbracht hat, lebt Tony Horwitz heute mit seiner Familie in Massachusetts.