A review by julis
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz

challenging slow-paced

2.0

This is the third Tony Horowitz book I’ve read and the first one I didn’t fully love. It took until about 2/3 of the way through for the book to hit its stride, which is such a waste. Like most of his books, it alternates between modern day retracing-the-steps and historical chapters. The modern day portions are pretty bland until the end, and the historical ones are out of chronological order and full of “well, turns out Cook really was a complete mystery”. If that’s true why did you write a book about him.

There were good bits but yeah. Mostly unsatisfying.