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Tony Horwitz - Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Review
Overall 5.00 of 5
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Going Boldly into the Sea
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JAN
3
2008
The thing I couldn't get over is how much he affected the places he visited. And I can see why he wasn't considered a hero to anyone but the English. I mean with him came disease, greed, violence and the destruction of the land ~ everything that is bad in today's time.
What were once beautiful areas filled with gentle people became slums with no one ounce of good soil. But that being said, a person that didn't have his sensitivity to his power could have done a lot worse. I think he was smart enough to know how much power he had - he could have destroyed civilizations and no one would have been the wiser. And it's not like it wouldn't have happened eventually - he just caused it to happen at THAT time.
I always find it so egotistical of us to claim land in the name of a country when THERE are PEOPLE already living on that land! But that's another story.
This book was so easy to go thru even though it was Non-fiction and over 400 pages. I couldn't imagine reading a book about Captain Cooks travels without falling asleep or getting a huge headache but he wrote in such a story way that it took me a minute to realize I was actually learning something. And it helped to have Rodger's dialogue thrown in every now and then.
Make sure you check out his site when you get a chance it has maps of Cook's voyages, pictures of everyone he talked about and a bit more information. Or and before I forget, when I mentioned the book to my dad he says he saw the site in Hawaii where Cook was killed. He thought that they buried him in the hills and I had fun telling him that they used his leg bone to make an arrow and more than likely parts of him were eaten!...
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