A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312428327)

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.

Author: Tony Horwitz
ISBN-10: 0312428324
ISBN-13: 9780312428327
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 04/27/2009
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/24/2009 pg. 20