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

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World | Tony Horwitz | The real American history

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A Voyage Long and ...

	A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World Tony Horwitz Henry Holt and Co., 2008 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 42 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fascinating journey of European contact with America up until the Mayflower

This is a great overview of the period that starts with the Vikings settling un the east coast of Canada until the arrival of the Mayflower and the "pilgrims". It is well narrated odyssey that is both interesting and educational. The author immerses the listener in a world that we have perhaps forgotten even though its remains are still visible today. You will look at the continental US and all of America different after going through this book.

The real American history

Horwitz spends three years traveling to the sites of early explorers and settlers who were in the Americas 100 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock or PR was long considered the birthplace of America, Horwitz shows that other places, especially Florida, can easily claim the title.

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Excellent history - Excellent Read

Tony Horwitz asks the very simple question - "What happened in North America between Columbus and the Pilgrims?" - a 128 year interlude that seems strangely ignored - and then searches out the answer. Along the way he also searches out where, why, and by whom it is still remembered. A very funny book as a bit of travel writing (think Bill Bryson) and slice of present day Americana, and a very solid primer on the explorations and settlement of North America before the Pilgrims came and claimed to be the first.

It's not quite as good as Horwitz's book "Confederates in the Attic" - but that book sets a very high bar indeed. (If you've never read it, read that one first.) But a solid and enjoyable effort all around.

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