Explorers in the 1770s generally had no idea what lay five minutes ahead. Tony was sailing through charted, known waters. But Tony is only out for a week a Pacific voyage of discovery in the 1770s took several years. A week of this teaches him a thing or two about the rigors of seafaring before the mast. Horwitz begins his adventure by signing on as an able-bodied seaman for a week’s sailing of the replica Endeavour. The other is by visiting many of the places that Cook visited. One is through the literature, Cook’s extensive records and the records of those who knew him or who have studied him. The only real analogy for Captain James Cook, who resolutely explored the Pacific between 17, is Captain James Kirk, captain of the starship Enterprise.Īt least that is what Tony Horwitz thinks, and he is determined to come to an understanding of Cook, his restless adventuring, his compulsive will to plunge into the unknown, and the consequences of his deeds.
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