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Rediscovering America's obscured pre-Pilgrim explorers.

If you're itching to unravel the lesser-known tales of America before the Pilgrims, Tony Horwitz’s "A Voyage Long and Strange" is your next adventure. It's a journey that stitches together historical curiosity with travelogue zest. Horwitz doesn't just recite dusty facts; he plunges into the past, taking us along for a ride that’s as entertaining as it is enlightening. Imagine retracing steps of the wild, sometimes unhinged explorers—without leaving your armchair.

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

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ISBN: 9780312428327
Authors: Tony Horwitz
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2009-04-27
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs, Travel
Goodreads rating: 3.96
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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.
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Rediscovering America's obscured pre-Pilgrim explorers.

If you're itching to unravel the lesser-known tales of America before the Pilgrims, Tony Horwitz’s "A Voyage Long and Strange" is your next adventure. It's a journey that stitches together historical curiosity with travelogue zest. Horwitz doesn't just recite dusty facts; he plunges into the past, taking us along for a ride that’s as entertaining as it is enlightening. Imagine retracing steps of the wild, sometimes unhinged explorers—without leaving your armchair.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.