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

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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Tony HorwitzPublish date:2009-04-27Pages:464
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312428327ISBN-10:312428324UPC:9780312428327Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Expeditions & Discoveries, North American, Americas (North Central South West Indies)Size:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.40 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SC7Q8GHQG1

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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312428327ISBN-10:312428324UPC:9780312428327Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Expeditions & Discoveries, North American, Americas (North Central South West Indies)Size:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.40 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SC7Q8GHQG1

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.


Publisher: Picador USA

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Tony Horwitz

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