A voyage long and strange rediscovering the new world
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university--a history major, no less!--he's reached middle age with a third-grader's grasp of early America. In fact, he's mislaid more than a...
| Main Author: | Horwitz, Tony, 1958- |
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| Corporate Authors: | Books on Tape, Inc. |
| Other Authors: | Mayer, John H. |
| Format: | Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Ana, CA :
Books on Tape,
2008.
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| Summary: |
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university--a history major, no less!--he's reached middle age with a third-grader's grasp of early America. In fact, he's mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus's landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists at Jamestown in 160-something. Horwitz decides to find out, and in A voyage long and strange he uncovers the neglected story of America's founding by Europeans. He begins a thousand years ago, with the Vikings, and then tells the dramatic tale of conquistadors, castaways, French voyageurs, Moorish slaves, and many others who roamed and rampaged across half the states of the present-day U.S. continent, long before the Mayflower landed. To explore this history and its legacy in the present, Horwitz embarks on an epic quest of his own--trekking in search of grape-rich Vinland, Ponce de LeoĢns Fountain of Youth, Coronado's Cities of Gold, Walter Raleigh's Lost Colonists, and other mysteries of early America. And everywhere he goes, Horwitz probes the revealing gap between fact and legend, between what we enshrine and what we forget. |
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Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 17:16:49. |
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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 248348 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: |
9781415943977 1415943974 |
| Author Notes: |
He was an education reporter for The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel in Indiana from 1983 to 1984 and a general assignment reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald in Australia from 1985 to 1987. He joined The Wall Street Journal in 1990 as a foreign correspondent in Europe and the Middle East. He and his wife Geraldine Brooks won the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award in 1990 for their coverage of the Persian Gulf war. He returned to the United States in 1993 and was assigned to The Journal's Pittsburgh bureau. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his accounts of working conditions in low-wage jobs. He later wrote for The New Yorker on the Middle East before becoming an author of nonfiction books. His first book, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, was published in 1998. His other books included Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, and Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. He died on May 27, 2019 at the age of 60. (Bowker Author Biography) |