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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, by Tony Horwitz (Henry Holt, 496 pp., $26)
Horwitz, a former writer for the Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker, has been a fearless practitioner of "participatory journalism." For a series of articles on the conditions of low-wage workers, he once got a job working on the kill floor of a chicken plant. For a book on Civil War reenactors, he marched along with the hard-core buffs. But it's a good bet that he's never done anything more strenuous than work as a sailor aboard an 18th-century man-of-war.
An Australian foundation built an exact replica of Captain Cook's flagship, His ...
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