"Thoroughly enjoyable. No writer has better captured the heroic enigma that was Captain James Cook than Tony Horwitz in this amiable and enthralling excursion around the Pacific."
--- Bill Bryson, author of In a Sunburned Country

"Tony Horwitz's Blue Latitudes is one of the best. . . full of humor. . . an elegant running account of Cook's exploits."
--- The New York Times Book Review (cover review)

"Part history, part travelogue--and mostly just great fun. . . This is history on a global scale, and Horwitz tells it surpassingly well."
--- Los Angeles Times

"A tour de force of evocative history, serious scholarship, and compelling writing."
--- The Washington Post

"Part Cook biography, part travelogue, and very much a stroke of genius."
--- The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Hilarious, brainy, and balanced. . . .A trip with Horwitz is as good as it gets."
--- The Charlotte Observer

"Tony Horwitz has done it again. . . Keen insight, open-mindedness and laugh-out-loud humor."
--- San Francisco Chronicle

"A staggering blend of historical research, character study, sociological analysis, and intriguing tales of travel."
--- The Boston Globe

"Curiosity, intelligence, compassion and a sense of adventure. . . I love reading Tony Horwitz."
--- Chicago Tribune

"Horwitz succeeds brilliantly in turning the English from stiff icons to flesh-and-blood human beings. The book's constant humor, honesty and judgment recall his own Confederates in the Attic and Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods.. . . This book will keep you enthralled."
--- The Seattle Time