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Media
Contact:
Mary Kate Keith,
919/515-2841
Oct.
22, 2002
Tony Horwitz,
Author and Journalist, to Present at Special Reading
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Tony
Horwitz, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and
best-selling author of "Confederates in the
Attic," will appear at North Carolina State
University's McKimmon Center at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
November 5. The special reading, sponsored by
the Friends of the Library of North Carolina State
University and Quail Ridge Books and Music, is
free and open to the public.
His
talk will explore his entertaining new book, "Blue
Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has
Gone before," a tale of high-seas adventure
and a portrait of one of history's greatest navigators,
Captain James Cook. The book is a New York
Times best seller in nonfiction. Following
the reading, guests will have the opportunity
to purchase books and have them signed by the
author.
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Award-winning
journalist Tony Horwitz
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To
research the book, Horwitz spent 18 months retracing
Cook's voyages across the Pacific. His travels took
him to Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, Tonga, Hawaii,
the Aleutian Islands, and Yorkshire, England. Publishers
Weekly gave the book a starred review, commenting
that, "Horwitz skillfully paces the book by intertwining
his own often amusing adventures with tales of Cook
and his men. Despite the historical focus, Horwitz doesn't
stray too far from the encounters with everyday people
that gave his previous books such zest." Horwitz's
earlier national best seller, "Confederates in
the Attic," offered a unique look at our country's
fascination with the Civil War.
For
more information, call the Friends
of the Library at (919) 515-2841.
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Raleigh,
NC 27695
