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Praise for Blue Latitudes “Hilarious, brainy, and balanced…A trip with Horwitz is as good as it gets.” —The Charlotte Observer “Horwitz’s adventures pay illuminating tribute to the great navigator—to Captain Cook himself and to his intrepid eighteenth-century colleagues, including the improbably attractive Sir Joseph Banks. But most of all Blue Latitudes offers clear-eyed, vivid, and highly entertaining reassurance that there are still outlandish worlds to be discovered.” —Caroline Alexander, author of The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition “Blue Latitudes is a rollicking read that is also a sneaky work of scholarship, providing new and unexpected insights into the man who out-discovered Columbus. A terrific book—I inhaled it in one weekend.” —Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea “One of the best…full of humor…It is with people that Horwitz excels. As he demonstrated in Confederates in the Attic , he has a gift for getting them to open up. A terrific reporter, Horwitz investigates how the places he visits have changed…. What he also does, and what makes this book so absorbing, is intersperse amon......