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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W hat 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.

A Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mix of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America's history vividly to life.

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The Pilgrims didn’t think much of Cape Cod. “A hideous and desolate wilderness,” William Bradford called it. “Full of wild beasts and wild men.” Rather than stay, a small party from the Mayflower sailed ahead, searching for a winter haven. In December 1620, they reached Plymouth, a place “fit for situation,” Bradford wrote. “At least it was the best they could find.”

On a New England road trip a few summers ago, I washed up in Plymouth, too.

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An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs--these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis.

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"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


 

 

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Tony Horwitz

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.

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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
April 2009
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780312428327
ISBN10: 0312428324
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 464 pages, Includes black-and-white photographs throughout plus16 pages of black-and-white maps
$18.00
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Henry Holt and Co.
April 2008
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ISBN: 9780805076035
ISBN10: 0805076034
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 464 pages, Includes eight maps and three illustrations
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April 2008
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ISBN: 9781429937733
ISBN10: 1429937734
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 464 pages, 6-8 maps; 3 illustrations throughout; printed ends? map ends?
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