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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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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/04/2009
      ISBN13: 9780312428327, 978-0312428327
      ISBN10: 0312428324
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      Geographical discovery and exploration

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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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