A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz
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In this fascinating title, made up of equal parts history, travelogue, and investigation, Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Horwitz adeptly weaves the present with the past, making history accessible and entertaining for everyone.
This engaging and immensely readable non-fiction volume relates the discoveries made by the author, in his quest to find the truth about America's early history. Combining his training as a journalist with an insatiable curiosity, Horwitz embarks on a journey that extends from 1000 C.E. where he retraces the steps of the Vikings in Newfoundland to 1620 when the Pilgrims and the Mayflower landed at Plymouth, (rock included later). Many of the locals Horwitz meets are as colorful as the explorers he is searching out.
This well-paced and riveting account delivers history and adventure in an entertaining and captivating manner.
This engaging and immensely readable non-fiction volume relates the discoveries made by the author, in his quest to find the truth about America's early history. Combining his training as a journalist with an insatiable curiosity, Horwitz embarks on a journey that extends from 1000 C.E. where he retraces the steps of the Vikings in Newfoundland to 1620 when the Pilgrims and the Mayflower landed at Plymouth, (rock included later). Many of the locals Horwitz meets are as colorful as the explorers he is searching out.
This well-paced and riveting account delivers history and adventure in an entertaining and captivating manner.