The Voyage Long and Strange

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ISBN-10:

0719566355

ISBN-13:

9780719566356

Author(s): HORWITZ, Tony
Edition: First Edition
Released: Dec 31, 2008
Publisher: Hodder&Stoughton
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
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Description:

A Voyage Long and Strange opens with the Vikings in AD 1000, but focuses on the neglected period in early American history between Columbus' voyage of 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620. Horwitz recaptures the adventures of non-English explorers and the drama of the first contact with native peoples during this periods. He also sets out on his own journey of rediscovery, travelling in the explorers' wake to reveal the enduring influence that early Europeans had on America.


Why, Horwitz asks, do we remember history the way we do? During his long and strange journey, from Indian sweat lodges to Columbus' crypt, he exposes the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget about our past. A Voyage Long and Strange is a gripping historical adventure that illuminates not only America's early European history, but also the memory and myths that give the past power in the present day.












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