In Blue Latitudes journalist Tony Horwitz follows in the footsteps of Captain Cook, beginning with a week working as a member of the crew on board a replica of Cook’s ship Endeavor. I’d always thought of Cook as this stereotypical British officer, all his buttons properly polished and looking down a very long nose at…
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Scurvy chilled the ambition of every voyage. Because they did not know the causes of the disease, they could not control it. In 1768-71, James Cook first beat scurvy on a long voyage by the regular issue of the proper antiscorbutics. By then, it was known to be a dietary problem. Dr. James Lind, in…
Scurvy chilled the ambition of every voyage. Because they did not know the causes of the disease, they could not control it. In 1768-71, James Cook first beat scurvy on a long voyage by the regular issue of the proper anti-scorbutics. By then, it was known to be a dietary problem. Dr. James Lind, in…
