deborealis | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 16 2006 | books, travel, history, captain cook
I finished this book this weekend, and was surprised how much I really liked it. If they only taught this type of history at school, maybe I'd be a better contributor at pub trivia now. The author set about to recreate Captain Cook's travels through painstaking research and quite a bit of travel, some of it very bizarre. The author mixed humor and facts well, and I'd gladly read other books by him. I've recommended this book to several other people. Also good for both the sailing lust and travel lust that I'm attempting to supress.
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