Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone BeforeTwo centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the C…

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