Overview
A Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mixture of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America's history vividly to life. What happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he doesn't have a clue, nor do most Americans. So he sets off across the continent to rediscover the wild era when Europeans first roamed the New World in quest of gold, glory, converts, and eternal youth. Horwitz tells the story of these brave and often crazed explorers while retracing their steps on his own epic trek--an odyssey that takes him inside an Indian sweat lodge in subarctic Canada, down the Mississippi in a canoe, on a road trip fueled by buffalo meat, and into sixty pounds of armor as a conquistador reenactor in Florida.
Full Product Details
Author: Tony Horwitz
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Volume: 45
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 20.80cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9780312428327
ISBN 10: 0312428324
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 27 April 2009
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Wonderfully written, and heroically researched...Horwitz unearths whole chapters of American history that have been ignored. -- The Boston Globe<br> Poignant and hilarious . . . Riveting. -- The Seattle Times <br> History of the most accessible sort . . . full of vivid characters and wild detail. -- The New York Times <br> Entertaining, insightful . . . Rich with reading pleasure. -- The Christian Science Monitor <p> <br> <p>
Wonderfully written, and heroically researched...Horwitz unearths whole chapters of American history that have been ignored. --The Boston Globe Poignant and hilarious . . . Riveting. --The Seattle Times History of the most accessible sort . . . full of vivid characters and wild detail. --The New York Times Entertaining, insightful . . . Rich with reading pleasure. --The Christian Science Monitor
Wonderfully written, and heroically researched...Horwitz unearths whole chapters of American history that have been ignored. -- The Boston Globe Poignant and hilarious . . . Riveting. -- The Seattle Times History of the most accessible sort . . . full of vivid characters and wild detail. -- The New York Times Entertaining, insightful . . . Rich with reading pleasure. -- The Christian Science Monitor
Wonderfully written, and heroically researched...Horwitz unearths whole chapters of American history that have been ignored. -- The Boston Globe<br> Poignant and hilarious . . . Riveting. -- The Seattle Times <br> History of the most accessible sort . . . full of vivid characters and wild detail. -- The New York Times <br><br> Entertaining, insightful . . . Rich with reading pleasure. -- The Christian Science Monitor <p> <br> <p>
Wonderfully written, and heroically researched...Horwitz unearths whole chapters of American history that have been ignored. -- The Boston Globe Poignant and hilarious . . . Riveting. -- The Seattle Times History of the most accessible sort . . . full of vivid characters and wild detail. -- The New York Times Entertaining, insightful . . . Rich with reading pleasure. -- The Christian Science Monitor
Author Information
TONY HORWITZ is the bestselling author of Blue Latitudes, Confederates in the Attic, and Baghdad without a Map. He is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked for The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their sons, Nathaniel and Bizu.
