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Captain James Cook's three epic 18th-century explorations of the Pacific Ocean were the last of their kind, literally completing the map of the world. Yet despite his monumental discoveries, principally in the South Pacific, Cook the man has remained an enigma. In retracing key legs of the circumnavigator's journey, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz chronicles the cultural and environmental havoc wrought by the captain's opening of the unspoiled Pacific to the West, as well as the alternately indifferent and passionate reactions Cook's name evokes during the writer's journeys through Polynesia, Australia, the Aleutians, and the explorer's native England. Horwitz skillfully weaves a biography and travel narrative with warm humor that is natural and human-scale, and his restless inquisitiveness quickly infects the reader. While striking dichotomies abound throughout that journey--Maori toughs who adopt Nazi imagery to symbolize their own fight against white domination, millennia-old Polynesian sexual mores that would shame the Reeperbahn, a sense that Christianity decimated native cultures at least as effectively as Western venereal diseases did--few are more poignant than the ones that abound in Cook's own life. This fine work is an adventurous reminder that answers to historical riddles are elusive at best--and seldom as compelling as the myriad new questions they pose. --Jerry McCulley
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Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the Captain's adventures and explore his embattled legacy in today's Pacific. Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of Confederates in the Attic, works as a sailor aboard a replica of Cook's ship, meets island kings and beauty queens, and carouses the South Seas with a hilarious and disgraceful travel companion, an Aussie named Roger. He also creates a brilliant portrait of Cook: an impoverished farmboy who became the greatest navigator in British history and forever changed the lands he touched. Poignant, probing, antic, and exhilarating, Blue Latitudes brings to life a man who helped create the global village we inhabit today.
Customer Reviews:
Captain Cook For A Day.......2007-09-28
Well, I'm not ashamed to admit my hand just went right out and chose this book for title alone, on the strength of another travelogue I have in my library with "Blue" in the title (William Least Heat Moon's excellent Blue Highways). The boat on the cover helped; I'm a sucker for seagoing stories.
There is no denying Tony Horwitz has a gift for getting you to read; I was absorbed immediately. He makes history vastly more interesting than my Western Civ professor did in college, and presents a credible reasoning for what lead up to the death of Captain James T. Cook (that's right, sportsfans, the captain of the starship Enterprise is named after the 18th-century explorer).
Because of a lifelong passion for the sea and, apparently, Captain Cook, Horwitz embarked upon the novel notion of retracing the great man's voyages, 21st-century style. I thought this a bit of a cheat throughout the book; he VISITED the same sites, but couldn't have been said to truly get the flavour of any of the journeys. He started out promisingly, signing onto a trip for not quite a week aboard a replica of Cook's ship Endeavour by blatantly lying his way through the application, checking "yes" to questions he probably should have, in retrospect, reconsidered. A more-or-less total greenhorn, he schlepps his way through days of screwups with safety gear on that Cook's hapless sailors never enjoyed, along with far better food, no threat of corporal punishment and far less crowded conditions. Predictably, his first destination after getting off for the last time is a tavern - at least there he follows the pattern of sailors of old.
Thereafter his retracings take the form of flying to each port of call and investigating Cook's explorations on foot and by far safer land transportation (usually). The book is an excellent insight into the South Pacific of today; it seems to have no resemblance whatsoever to the South Pacific of Cook's time, which is probably the point. I have harboured a passion to visit Rarotonga all my life. After reading what the islands are like now, I think I will live with my fantasies. Things seem very shabby and dirty from Horwitz's perspective; not a paradise anymore. The one place which seems close, an island nation called Niue, is a curious mix of Christianized, very proper islanders and dubious offshore money-laundering concerns, and here Horwitz succeeds in making an unwelcome nuisance of himself by pestering the locals to show him a plant which causes them noticeable embarrassment. He doesn't take the hint when he gets the cold shoulder from almost everybody he asks about it but gets off the island, seemingly, just prior to being invited to leave.
"Blue Latitudes", as a whole, probably wouldn't supplant a recognized treatise about Captain Cook - although he does present the man's failings, it's clear he slants in favour of the explorer - but does effectively touch on almost every aspect of Cook's life and career, with intriguing insights into his dealings with native peoples, his prowess as a cartographer (some of Cook's charts were in use until the mid-1990s), and his expertise as a commander and seaman. He made three transoceanic voyages with minimal loss of life or property before possible burnout brought him to a set of unfortunate circumstances which culminated in his death at the hands of an infuriated mob of natives at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, on February 14, 1779.
Horwitz is enthusiastic in his efforts to get information, points of view, previously-unknown sidebars, and support from a huge cast of characters, accompanied almost throughout by a droll fellow named Roger who appears to be as amenable to foregoing any investigation that doesnt involve a rum bottle as he does in giving Horwitz moral support in the out-of-the-way places they visit. Overall, this was a highly entertaining book. I know far more now about Cook and the South Pacific - both former and present day - than I did before I read it, and was left, also, with a curious sense of loss at the end. I quite enjoyed circumnavigating the globe with Horwitz and his merry crew.
Good Read, a little long near the end..........2007-06-08
I am big fan of Tony Horwitz, and this was a very good book and a lot of great information on Captain Cook. My only complaint was that the book gets a little long near the end. Roger, Tony's accomplice throughout the journey is a real character and was enjoyable throughout.
A wondrous journey!.......2007-03-09
I had little idea of Captain Cook's comings and goings until a friend recommended this book to me. Coincidentally, I began reading it while on a trip that included Hawai'i -- and found myself on Big Island on the anniversary of the great captain's death (which I celebrated with a bird's eye view of the monument in his honor and a toast). The book makes fascinating and constantly entertaining and informative reading, and I liked Horwitz's idea of retracing Cook's steps, trying to balance what he came across with how things have changed (usually for the worse) in the past 230+ years. Cook's views on scurvy -- way beyond his years --, his normally open and respectful attitude towards native peoples, his huge talent for navigating and mapping what he encountered and his courage in the face of great peril and adversity have made me admire him a lot. It is interesting to note that most native peoples regard Cook as a bane, the man who brought so-called civilization to their previously untouched existences. I really do think Cook was the smaller of evils...
Cook and the New World.......2007-01-23
This is a book that could start the curious reader on a search of their own for the elusive Captain Cook. What is so good about this book is that Horwitz has been honest about his successes and failures in following in the footsteps of the great explorer. There are plenty of laugh out loud passages as Roger, his fellow traveller, and he confront the realities of travelling in places both isolated and altered since the days of Cook. Yet the book is far more than a merely amusing travelogue.
Horwitz manages to twine together his own travels and those of Cook in a manner that makes the reader realise how the world, and its people, have changed since the latter half of the eighteenth century. He clearly admires Cook, and most of his fellow sailors, whilst at the same time drawing attention to how their missions of exploration on behalf of what would become the British Empire altered the world for ever. One of the best aspects of the book is that he does not bludgeon the past into a politically correct framework but instead offers the reader insights into a past that many readers will find fascinating. The fact that Horwitz allows the reader to compare his abilities to cope with disappointments and difficulties to those of Cook makes the book more enjoyable.
A lengthy read but well worth the time.
Hit and miss.......2006-12-19
I really enjoyed Horwitz's CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC, so I thought I'd try his Captain Cook travelogue, BLUE LATITUDES. My reaction was mixed. I loved the stuff about Captain Cook, but was less enthusiastic about Horwitz's attempt to follow Cook's explorations.
Cook set out on three explorations, essentially looking for the Southern Continent. As a result Horwitz starts with the South Pacific islands, New Zealand, and Australia. The most interesting segment of this account for me was Cook's contact with the Australian aborigines who wanted nothing to do with Cook and told him, in their own language, to "Go Away." Later on Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef and came close to being shipwrecked.
In my mind Horwitz spends too much time on trivial matters. For instance, when Cook tried to land in modern Niue (Savage Island) the natives chased him away. He mistook them for cannibals since they had painted their teeth with red banana juice. Horwitz spends an inordinate amount of time looking for red bananas. In another instance, he travels the globe looking for an arrow supposedly made out of Cook's shin bone.
In some ways BLUE LATITUDES is inspirational. For one thing, Cook was born of poor parents in Yorkshire, England. He worked his way up from clerk, to sailor on a coal barge, to captain in the Royal Navy in a much more hierarchal society. He also went where "no man had been before." If that sounds familiar it's no accident. James T. Kirk was modeled after Captain Cook.
Captain Cook himself was a rather dour sort of person, but some of his shipmates had eccentric personalities. Joseph Banks, the botanist on board The Endeavor, was a nobleman who sailed with Cook rather than go on a grand tour. His journal entries can be poetic at times. David Samwell, surgeon's mate on board the Resolution, spent most of his time "admiring `Fair Damsels' and `nymphs' and calculating how to bed them." Cook, himself, comes alive when he philosophizes about the harm he may be doing to native cultures. Although he was ready with the musket when natives crossed him, he showed his human side when he tried not to expose the Hawaiians to venereal disease.
On the modern side, we visit Cooktown in northern Australia, where Horwitz and his pal Roger Williamson spend most of their time drinking, and the Aleutian Islands where Horwitz and his buddy Roger board a ferry that endures hurricane force winds resulting in almost terminal seasickness. Roger grates on your nerves after a while; he seems to have a one-track mind; he never goes anywhere without a ready supply of alcohol.
Whenever the book rotates back to the Cook biography, interest picks up. The most riveting part of the book is when Cook lands in Kealakekua Bay, for the second time, and you know that this is where he met his death. Horwitz also spends some time analyzing Cook's mental pathology. He seemed to suffering from "burn-out" on his third exploration. He flogged his crewman more than he ever had before, he forced them to eat walrus meat, he gave in to his temper, and he treated the natives inconsistently, which ultimately led to his death.
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- Going, Going Great!
- 50 short essays on obsolete elements of American life
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Going, Going, Gone: Vanishing Americana
Susan Jonas
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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ASIN: 0811819191 |
Book Description
Now with a fresh look and updated introduction, this witty volume is ready for the dawn of the new millennium. Chronicling the demise of things we thought would always be a part of life -- from the smell of burning leaves to wedding-night virgins -- this compendium of pop culture and history has been praised for its lively text full of intriguing trivia and retro photographs of each subject in its heyday. Whether you're old enough to remember polio scares or too young to have used a typewriter, this provocative and amusing look at the way things were offers end-of- the-century proof that the only constant in life is change.
Customer Reviews:
Going, Going Great!.......1999-12-09
My husband got Going, Going Gone out of the library and read it, I read it, my Dad read it, we all liked it. This book catalogs many of those things our moms, dads and grandparents used or did in daily life that are vanishing through changes in society or technology: carbon paper, rotary phone, garter belts, or mending socks for example. The book describes the things that lead to the phasing out of the old products and methods. The photocopier killed carbon paper for example. The only down side I can see is that the book is too short. My Dad thought it was written from a slightly feminist point of view, but I didn't really notice it. I am writing this review before buying 2 copies for Christmas presents.
50 short essays on obsolete elements of American life.......1997-04-17
The authors provide two to three page essays with a touch of nostalgiaon fifty specific elements of American life in years gone by. Subjects range from the highly tangible (drive-in movies, manual typewriters) to activities (hitchhiking, bridge parties) to abstract social norms (formal dating, parietal rules on college campuses). The strength of the book may well lie in its myriad of photographs that complement each essay extraordinarily well. The topics covered reinforce the fact that the authors are female (feminine hygiene products, white gloves, and mending, to name a few), and the reader will no doubt frequently ask himself or herself "why didn't they include this idea?"
Book Description
The clock is ticking: Can it be stopped? Many scientists believe that we are on the brink of a new mass extinction, with at least one million species in danger of not surviving to the end of the century. But there is still an opportunity to turn the tide, to change the way we live and give these creatures a chance. In the very first book of its kind, 100 conservation organizations from around the world each nominate a species—animal or plant—that it believes is most threatened. Every one selected receives a two-page spread, with magnificent photography, fascinating facts, details on why it is endangered, and information on how we can save it. Plus: complete contact details for the featured organizations.
Customer Reviews:
A Beautiful Book on a Terribly Sad Subject!.......2007-05-24
This book, which deals with endangered species and habitats worldwise, is at once marvelous to view yet saddening. Paging through the gorgeous photographs of cheetahs, Siberian cranes, monarch butterflies, woolly monkeys, corncockles and sumatran rhinos, it's disheartening to read that so many precious species are in danger of extinction. Conversely it cheers the soul to read of the various organizations that are trying to stem the tide and what 'Joe Average Citizen' can do to help.
A great deal of information is packed into the two-page spread given each animal, plant, fish, etc. Two photographs illustrate each species. Several short paragraphs describe the species and the reasons for its decline. A 'Fact Box' gives details on that species' lifespan, population, range and the threats they face. Finally a short section on 'What You Can Do' caps off the section.
Despite its small size, this book packs a big wallop. The images are disturbing enough but then to read that, for instance, there are only 1,600 giant pandas left on earth is heartbreaking! Anyone concerned with life on earth should read this book...and then take action.
An excellent, though limited, book........2007-01-24
I found this book's assemblage of some one hundred endangered or threatened animals from around the world to be a unique and well done idea. You'll find little favoritism as the animals featured run from the well known to others that you may have never heard of, as well as plants. In particular I found photos of animals I've never seen photographed in books before, like the Pygmy Hog. It also contains a lot of information on conservation groups large and small from around the world.
The nature of the book is by no means comprehensive, but rather is a selection of animals, one each recommended by the some one hundred conservation groups featured. It contains little information regarded the animal's lifestyles but mainly centers on their conservation status. Of particular note is that each entry contains a "what can I do?" area, which allows the reader to easily do something more than worry about the crisis.
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There's been another murder on the Cape, and the keen and salty Asey Mayo is on the trail again.
An auction that begins as a treasure hunt ends in murder, and an incredible discovery sends our unlikely detective off on a hunt for a killer. Were there secrets between rival art dealers, Miss Pitkin and Mr. Harmsworth? And where does Quin Sharp, the auctioneer, fit in? Here's Asey Mayo in a classic who-dunnit—as mysterious and amusing as his fans have a come to expect.
Customer Reviews:
Back to the Basic Mayo mystery.......2005-05-21
The first war time Mayo mystery had a speeded up pace and was chock full of war time activities. This book is also set in the early 40's but the war activities seem to have become routine, so the story could be told in a manner similar to Atwood Taylor's earlier works with their amusing portrayals of Cape Cod characters.
Asey is on vacation from tank manufacturing and is sorting fish line when cousin and housekeeper Jenny gets him to take her to an estate auction. Leaving her there, he goes off fishing, but when he gets home he's asked to open a trunk bought at the auction by one of the heirs. It contains the body of a local antique dealer who had failed to attend the auction. We're off with Asey wandering around, talking to a raft of auction goers, getting biffed on the head and left tied up, etc. The big questions are what happened to the money the estate owner kept in his house and what happened to the books that had been in the trunk before it was used to hide the body. The dead woman had been on the rations board so there were folks with a motive related to that as well as to the missing money and the antique business. As always, Asey cleverly sorts it out -- A recommended mystery from the classic era.
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Going, Going, Gone!: A Practical Auction Guide
Jan Klaster
Manufacturer: Book Sales
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0890095000 |
Book Description
The all-in-one guide guaranteed to help you sell your home for top dollar GOING GOING GONE!
Thinking about selling your home? Everyone knows that auctioning has always been the most successful method to sell any product for the highest price. So why have homeowners been so reluctant to enter the world of auctioning?
Now, the bestselling authors of How to Sell Your Home Without a Broker show homeowners how to say goodbye to realtors and get top dollar for their homes simply by employing the same selling techniques used by auctioneers throughout the world. In straightforward language, Going . . . Going . . . Gone! explains everything you need to know in order to raise the market value of your home in any real estate market- regardless of current economic conditions. Emphasizing the Dutch auction-appropriately named for the auctioning of tulips-Going . . . Going . . . Gone! is the ultimate guide to turning your home into a profit maker without wasting valuable money or time.
- Explains the nine types of auctions and how to choose whats best for you
- Shows you how to assemble an auction team and prepare your home for auction
- Offers tips on the best times to conduct an auction and insights into your typical buyer
- Includes the latest information on auctioning on the Internet
Customer Reviews:
What a heap of bunk.......2000-06-14
This novel is a hundred-or-so pages of fluffed-up filler. Common sense is repackaged as 'Auction Secrets' that purport to enable sellers to obtain more money than they would be able to through a real-estate agent. The big question of WHY people would pay more at your auction than they would through a regular sale is left completely unanswered. Annoyingly, the authors have seen fit to arbitrarily replace the letter 'S' in their book with the dollar sign '$', making it much more difficult to read.
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Publishers Weekly has called Jack Womack a "futurist wunderkind ... fast-moving, hipper-than-hip." In his latest novel it's 1968, and Walter Bullitt, part-time U.S. government freelancer, stays busy testing new psychotropics on himself and unsuspecting citizens. Walter's conscience never interferes with his work -- until he's asked to help sabotage Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign. The ghosts who've moved into his apartment aren't much comfort. Then two outre femmes fatales show up and frog-march Walter out of Max's Kansas City before the Velvet Underground can finish their first song. The ladies have a mission. They need to save New York -- both his and theirs. Called "infernally clever" by Locus, Going, Going, Gone is a deeply entertaining novel that closes Jack Womack's acclaimed Ambient series and serves up an apt diagnosis of modern America. "Daringly, scaringly distinct in contemporary fiction." -- Marjorie Preston, Philadelphia Weekly "The action moves with amphetamine quickness, and Womack's surefooted control over his material completely sucks us in...." -- Bruce Bauman, Bookforum
Customer Reviews:
Tsk Tsk, what a shame..........2005-04-29
My name is Whitney and I have three words to describe the book. Waste of time. This book was by far the worst piece of literature that I have ever read. The dialog was well written but the descriptions went on forever and half the time was using 1960/70s lingo and not being from that era made it rather difficult to decode. I would not recommend this book to anyone and I advise you to pick another.
...and it all comes together.......2003-02-04
Sort of...
Womack's style is so unique, I might suggest re-reading each book upon completion. His "vernacular" is so compelling, I actually find myself emulating it in e-mails to my friends (and perhaps his prophetic truncated style of speaking is an extrapolation of "e-mail-speak"). This book (or any of the books in the series, for that matter) are not suggested reading for the optimistic sort. He has as bleak an outlook of post-apocolyptic Earth as any author I've read, yet his vision also seems to be the most realistic. His works reap the seeds that our society is presently sowing, and he does it with STYLE.
While our government was fooling around with MK Ultra, Womack's more perverse parallel universe finds an accelerated plan far more sinister, even if it isn't fully explained. No need! He leaves enough room for you to plug in your own worst fears.
Sadly, I picked up "Random Acts" for a buck at a book surplus store (It was also, incidentally, an ideal place to start the Ambient series). While it was a great value for me, I find it unfathomable that Womack isn't as widely accepted as Frank Herbert. His vision is just as lucid, and, like Herbert's "Dune" series, I envy anyone who gets to experience it for the first time themselves...
Psychedelic Fun.......2002-03-07
I never would have thought that I would enjoy a book that contains abundant drug use to the degree that I enjoyed Jack Womack's newest novel. _Going, Going, Gone_ is a witty and psychedelic alternate history/time travel/parallel universe/ghost story all-in-one. The narrative flows easily once the reader becomes accustomed to Womack's out-there jargon.
The protagonist, Walter, is a counterculture government freelancer who's hired by the Kennedy family (indirectly) to convince Jim Kennedy to assassinate Bobby. Walter is perplexed by the ghosts floating in his living room and moaning his name. And he's not quite sure what to make of the gorgeous woman and her muscular companion that speak in bizarrely mangled English and who appear and disappear with regularity.
As the story progresses the various threads weave together in a surprisingly coherent (given the disparate threads)narrative. This is Book 5 in Womack's 'Ambient' series. It's not necessary to have read the previous 4 to enjoy this one but you'll soon find yourself searching for the other books in the series. Highly enjoyable throughout. Recommended.
More Whimper Than Bang.......2001-06-13
This novel demonstrates again Jack Womack's amazing talents, especially with language. One of the strongest aspects of the novel is the clash of the protagonist's hip talk with the Dryco-speak of his visitors.
However, I did not quite like this novel as much as the others in the series, and I definitely would ot recommend it as the first Womack novel to read.
A winner!.......2001-04-30
In 1968 independent researcher Walter Bullit tests new psychotropics mostly experimenting on himself as the guinea pig. At times, Walter accepts a job from the Feds to test one of his products on selected individuals. Perhaps because he is stoned so often, Walter has no remorse about what happens to his subjects.
His latest assignment is to insure Robert Kennedy does not run for the presidency, currently encumbered by Henry Cabot Lodge. However, this time Walter runs into problems as ghosts suddenly share his apartment and two strange females (Big Girl and Little Mod) literally abduct him from a concert. Eulie and Chlojo need Walter who is the nexus between two dimensions to save New York City that is two cities of New York, one in his world and the other in the home realm of the two weird women.
This book is not for everyone as the hip language will sound foreign to some readers even as it sets the tone and ambiance of the plot in a clockwork rose colored way. The story line is amusing as Jack Womack slices and dices society. Readers who enjoy offbeat alternate history will want to read this novel and the previous "Ambient" series books as Mr. Womack ends his wild ride with a stickball hit that is GOING GOING GONE over the tenement building roof.
Harriet Klausner
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100 Pounds Going, Going, Gone!
Robert Marshall
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1413797326 |
Book Description
The blasted Santa Claus suit wouldn't fit. It was too small. Believe me, that rocked my boat. Added to that dilemma was the fact that I had more health problems than one could throw rocks at, even if they lived in a rock quarry. “Do or die” was an expression that came to mind, and it was more fact than fiction. Up until then I hadn't taken my situation seriously. The steps I took to lose the weight are in this book. They are not complicated steps. Most of them are just common sense steps that we tend to overlook in our desire for quick results. I used no diet pills; no food in cans; no expensive, pre-cooked meals; and from the beginning I ate whatever I pleased and still lost 100 pounds. It isn't as tough as one might expect, once you set your mind to it.
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