Tony Horwitz Bücher

Die Suche nach Terra australis trieb James Cook über alle Ozeane. Als er 1768 England verließ, war ein Drittel der Erde noch unentdeckt. In nur elf Jahren erkundete er zu Schiff die Welt vom Beringmeer bis zur Antarktis, von Alaska bis Tasmanien. Als Cook 1779 auf Hawaii erschlagen wurde, hinterließ er der Nachwelt nichts Geringeres als ein neues Bild der Erde. Der Pulitzer-Preisträger Tony Horwitz hat sich auf die Spur von Käpt’n Cook begeben und dabei einen der größten Entdecker aller Zeiten neu entdeckt.

Mit dem neugierigen Blick des Entdeckers, großem Humor und historischem Sachverstand schildert Pulitzer-Preisträger Tony Horwitz die Stationen einer einzigartigen Reise: Er beleuchtet das Schicksal der Ureinwohner Amerikas ebenso wie das der Eroberer und erzählt die Geschichten ihrer Nachfahren, denen er unterwegs begegnet. Er schlägt Brücken zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Fakten und Legenden und wirft so ein völlig neues Licht auf den Kontinent, den wir seit so langer Zeit zu kennen glauben.

Captain James Cook's three epic journeys between 1768 and 1779 were the last great voyages of discovery. Sailing some 170,000 miles, Cook's ships reached every continent and every ocean, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Kamchatka to Java to Easter Island to the coast of Oregon. Before Cook set off, one third of the world's map remained, simply, blank. By the time he was done, there was little left to discover. Cook and his men were also among the first Europeans to encounter Pacific natives: hip-throbbing Tahitian dancers, New Zealand cannibals, Hawaiian surfers, Australian Aborigines sealed off from the rest of the world for thousands of years. Tony Horwitz vividly recounts these adventures, and revisits the lands and peoples Cook discovered to explore the captain's legacy in today's Pacific. Horwitz also has exotic and often comic adventures of his own, on land and at sea, including a stint as a working sailor aboard a replica of Cook's tall ship, the ENDEAVOUR.

This volume investigates the ties in the United States; South among citizens to the American Civil War that ended more than 130 years previously. The author reports on contemporary attitudes on the Civil War and how it is discussed and taught, as well as attitudes about race. Written in the form of dispatches posted at varying times, it recounts the author's Civil War explorations in the South. Some of his encounters are humerous, but many open a window into the tragic state of the US's chasmic divisions

"The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders. More than 150 years later, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the saddle--through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi, through Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and across Texas to the Rio Grande, discovering and reporting on vestiges of what Olmsted called the Cotton Kingdom"--

Horwitz podąża na Tahiti, Nową Zelandię, Australię, wyspy Pacyfiku, Aleuty i do p�łnocnej Anglii. Wciąż wraca do podstawowego pytania: jak to możliwe, że Cook, człowiek, kt�ry urodził się w nędznym domku robotnika rolnego (niżej byli tylko niewolnicy i więźniowie) został kapitanem kr�lewskiej marynarki i odbył trzy wielkie podr�że docierając do najdalszych krańc�w świata?