A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers...

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Tony Horwitz

A Voyage Long and Strange

On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America...

Tony Horwitz

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Picador USA
27 April 2009

History; General & world history; History of the Americas; Historical geography; Geographical discovery & exploration

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.

By: Tony Horwitz
Imprint: Picador USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780312428327
ISBN 10: 0312428324
Pages: 445
Publication Date: 27 April 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

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