# Pirate Latitudes foreshadowing

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 5, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-latitudes-foreshadowing/523700 "2010-01-05T00:52:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lightsaber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Lightsaber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightsaber)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-latitudes-foreshadowing/523700/1 "2010-01-05T00:52:47Z")

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I was reading Michael Crichton’s 1988 book _Travels_. I ran across this on his chapter on Jamaica:

“For many years I had been working on a book about seventeenth-century Jamaica, and now I wanted to visit this museum.”

The book he was referring to was surely _Pirate Latitudes_, which was just published late last year after his death.

Anyway, just thought this was interesting. I was shocked to stumble upon this.

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-latitudes-foreshadowing/523700/2 "2010-01-05T05:41:28Z")

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I’m not surprised. The publisher kept touting it as the last book Crichton wrote before he died, but when questioned they admitted they had no idea when it was written.