A voyage long and strange rediscovering the new world
An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs--these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most fa...
| Main Author: | Horwitz, Tony, 1958- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Henry Holt and Co.,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Vinland : go west, young Norseman
- 1492 : the hidden half of the globe
- Santo Domingo : the Columbus jinx
- Dominican Republic : you think there are still Indians?
- Gulf coast : naked and lost in the new world
- The Southwest : to the seven cities of stone
- The plains : adrift in a sea of grass
- The South : De Soto does Dixie
- The Mississippi : conquistador's last stand
- Florida : fountain of youth, river of blood
- Roanoke : lost in the lost colony
- Jamestown : the captain and the naturals
- Plymouth : tale of two rocks.