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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

by Tony Horwitz Author

The author traces James Cook's journeys aboard a replica of Cook's ship. Please preview! (See review below.)

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Resource Type
Book
ISBN
0-8050-6541-5
Print Status
In Print
Chapters
14
Pages
481
Suggested Grades
9th - 12th
Geographical Setting
Pacific Ocean, Tahiti, Bora-Bora, New Zealand, Australia, England, Alaska, Hawaii
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Copyright
2002

Chapters

  • 1 Pacific Northwest: One Week Before the Mast
  • 2 Tahiti: Sic Transit Venus
  • 3 To Bora-Bora: Sold a Pup
  • 4 New Zealand: Warriors, Still
  • 5 Botany Bay: In the Pure State of Nature
  • 6 The Great Barrier Reef: Wrecked
  • 7 Homeward Bound: The Hospital Ship
  • 8 Savage Island: The Hunt for Red Banana
  • 9 Tonga: Where Time Begins, and Goes Back
  • 10 North Yorkshire: A Plain, Zealous Man
  • 11 London: Shipping Out, Again
  • 12 Alaska: Outside Men
  • 13 Hawaii: The Last Island
  • 14 Kealakekua Bay: A Bad Day on Black Rock

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Reviewed by Parent/Teacher

Oh, please do preread this one before handing it to a child! Pretty please! I got this for myself to read, and had to stop because of repeated references to sexual practices. Too bad, because I did like the idea of the book very much.

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