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Title: Travel, history, geography -- all with good humor
Review: Blue Latitudes was my "subway" book last week. (See, I am a traveler too!)I loved the unusual structure of the book, loosely alternating history of Cook's travels with descriptions of the author's own visits to the same places two centuries later, and then having the author ("ego") taking his ne'er-do-well travelling companion ("id") to compare impressions of the locations which, depending on your point of view, were discovered ("ego") or spoiled ("id") by Captain Cook.The travel reporting is in the Paul Theroux mode; Horwitz is often unromantic, even cranky, about the project and the places he visits. However, he is always witty and perceptive. The history and geography research is fascinating, especially when Horwitz turns up Englishmen, Australians and Polynesians, all Cook hobbyists, with strongly held but magnificently divergent opinions about the facts and impact of the Voyages of Discovery.
