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    The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965

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

by Tony Horwitz

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

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Publisher Comments:

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

What happened in North America between Columbus' 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.

A Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mix of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America's history vividly to life.

Review:

"Entertaining, insightful...Rich with reading pleasure." The Christian Science Monitor

Review:

"Wonderfully written, and heroically researched...Horwitz unearths whole chapters of American history that have been ignored." The Boston Globe

Review:

"Poignant and hilarious...Riveting." The Seattle Times

Review:

"History of the most accessible sort...[F]ull of vivid characters and wild detail." The New York Times
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About the Author

Tony Horowitz is the bestselling author of Blue Latitudes, Confederates in the Attic, and Baghdad without a Map. He is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked for The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their son, Nathaniel.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780312428327
Subtitle:
On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
Author:
Horwitz, Tony
Publisher:
Picador USA
Subject:
Expeditions & Discoveries
Subject:
North American
Subject:
General
Subject:
General Travel
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Publication Date:
April 2009
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
445
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.50 in
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