A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
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Author: Tony Horwitz
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-29
ISBN: 0805076034
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

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Book Review: not as good as I'd hoped for
Summary: 3 Stars

I loved "Confederates in the Attic" and feel "Blue Latitudes" is the Platonic Ideal of a travel book. He uses the same formula as "Blue Latitudes" in this book switchig from historical exposition to personal narration but it doesn't work as well. The material feels thin and stretched. It is quite readable and even informative but to me, hoping for a book as excellent as the two noted above, a disappointment.

Summary of A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America

On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America.

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. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers.

Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek-from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges-Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.

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