Please try again. Be the first to ask a question about A Voyage Long and Strange. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. “A lot of people come here expecting the Rock of Gibraltar,” she said. This was supposed to be a break from military history and war leaders that I’ve been picking up to read. The jury is still out, and I will work my way through Horwitz's oeuvre to reach a more nuanced conclusion. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. This is an almost perfect mix of history (and history that is virtually unknown to most Americans, I think, despite the importance of this period) and modern storytelling. Almost everyone knows the Mayflower, even new immigrants; the Pilgrim ship features prominently in citizenship tests. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. Listen Free to Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World audiobook by Tony Horwitz with a 30 Day Free Trial! “Maybe that’s where they went on their last vacation.”. Entertainingly written, generally horrific in the details. The boulder, about five feet square, had a badly mended cleft in the middle. An entertaining survey of the European explorers of the Americas between Christopher Colombus and Plymouth Plantation. Reaching the coast, Verrazzano dispatched one of his men to swim ashore and greet some people gathered on the dunes. A Voyage Long And Strange: Rediscovering the New World Tony Horwitz, Author. An entertaining survey of the European explorers of the Americas between Christopher Colombus and Plymouth Plantation. Please try again. Reared on James Louwen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me", I was ready to embark full-hearted on a cross-country romp through the misstated facts of American civil mythology. So were excursions by the Erikson family, de Leon, da Vaca, Coronado, de Soto and a host of others. “Americans learn about 1492 and 1620 as kids and that’s all they remember as adults,” she said. Horwitz unearths whole chapters of American history that have been ignored.” ―Boston Globe, “Like travel writer Bill Bryson, Horwitz has a penchant for meeting colorful characters and getting himself into bizarre situations.” ―The Christian Science Monitor, “A sweeping history.… A fascinating story, filled with adventure, Vikings, French voyageurs and those Pilgrims.” ―The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Horwitz is a very funny writer.” ―Bloomberg News, “A winning and eye-opening read.… Horwitz's charm, smarts, impeccable research and curiosity make this a voyage worth taking.” ―The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), “By conveying our past so heartily, handsomely and winsomely, Tony Horwitz does America proud.” ―The Providence Journal, The Pilgrims didn’t think much of Cape Cod. He will be missed. The author handled this topic in a nice way, without romanticsing the facts and yet still keeping a human appeal. Did the Pilgrims serve Thanksgiving on top of it? Closing the book for the last time, I felt dissatisfied. On a New England road trip a few summers ago, I washed up in Plymouth, too. Perhaps Horowitz assumed we as reader knew enough about the story of the Pilgrims to gloss over or not even mention much of their saga (treating it much differently than the saga of earlier exploration and settlement experiences), but I wish he had kept with his style and format on this story and wanted a bit more here. A used copy with normal reading wear. The early history of the Spanish conquistadors in the US is as fascinating as it is gruesome. This was a really interesting book both historically and as a look at culture from 1400-1700 in America and abroad. Myth we choose, we create, we perpetuate. A Voyage Long and Strange NPR coverage of A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz. Returning home to Virginia, I resolved to undertake some remedial study. Because Tony Horwitz’s A VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE: REDISCOVERING THE NEW WORLD is that most remarkable blend of thrilling storytelling, reasoned analysis, first-person experience and thoughtful balance. In 1528, on a return voyage to America, Verrazzano went ashore on a Caribbean island that appeared deserted. Every school kid is taught that Columbus "discovered" America in 1492 and that the Pilgrims stepped onto a rock in 1620, but what happened in between? We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Gave up about 1/3 through the book. That’s just how I read it - one chapter at a time, pausing (sometimes for months) to pick up other things. Scraps from elementary school and the Thanksgiving table. The result is an entertaining mix of the policies and personalities of early Europeans interacting in North America and a travelogue of his adventures following their historical trails. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. This is an almost perfect mix of history (and history that is virtually unknown to most Americans, I think, despite the importance of this period) and modern storytelling. Er beschließt nachzuforschen und auf Tour zu den wichtigsten Schauplätzen zu gehen - Von dem Punkt wo die Wikinger erstmals den Amerikanischen Kontinent betraten bis zu den diversen Orten wo die Spanier zwischendurch Befestigungen unterhalten haben (die Spanier waren aber mehr an Raubzügen als an Besiedelung interessiert). Horwitz evidently received the same sort of education, and after an unintended visit to Plymouth Rock, he was inspired to fill in the gaps in his knowledge. Holt $27.50 (445p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7603-5. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Find books like A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World from the world’s largest community of readers. I admit a bias about Tony Horwitz's writing, which perhaps reflects more on my unrealistic expectations of a travel writer than on Tony Horwitz, or perhaps a rush to judgment on my part. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (audio book) by Tony Horwitz (who also narrated), (2008, 464 pages in paper from, Listened Dec 2-10) My latest audio. I admit a bias about Tony Horwitz's writing, which perhaps reflects more on my unrealistic expectations of a travel writer than on Tony Horwitz, or perhaps a rush to judgment on my part. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. There was a lot of stuff in this book I didn't know but also lots and lots of facts that I did know. There was a problem loading your book clubs. He hits the trail, seeking out the locations where the action happened. I really love learning about history but some academic history books can be very dry and boring to read so I like history books like this where it was written for a broad audience. Reared on James Louwen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me", I was ready to embark full-hearted on a cross-country romp through the misstated facts of American civil mythology. But it was a worthy read and I was reminded (in much greater detail than I probably ever knew) of pre-Pilgrim American discovery. I looked around and couldn’t see anything except asphalt and a few stones small enough for skipping. In an effort to fill in this period, he began studying early Viking, French, and Spanish exploration and colonization efforts in North America and visiting many of the actual locations involved. Maybe nothing happened in the period between. [Tony Horwitz] -- An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Tony Horwitz stellt fest, dass er - obwohl Geschichte studiert - erstaunlich wenig über die Besiedelung der Vereinigten Staaten jenseits dessen weiß, was dort jeder lernt: Amerika wurde von Columbus entdeckt und zwei Jahrhunderte später von den Engländern besiedelt. “That’s going to be one heckuva home movie.”, I went over to chat with a woman in green shorts and tan shirt standing outside the enclosure, counting visitors with a hand clicker. I thoroughly enjoyed it and can wholeheartedly recommend it! This book is an easy read and would do well as preliminary reading for any History 101 class. The Christian Europeans were generally unspeakably, unforgivably terrible. This is a must-read for everybody who takes an interest in history, but also for those who like travel writing as this book manages to be both at the same time. Stepping inside, I came to a rail overlooking a shallow pit. (Please forgive my verb tense. Dragged towards the end,but very enjoyable. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Took me well over a year, if I am being honest. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it.”, http://www.tonyhorwitz.com/books/voyage-long-and-strange.php, Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico, This Just In: ‘SNL’ Star Colin Jost Is Seriously Bookish. Jamestown preceded Plymouth by thirteen years as the first permanent English colony on the continent. Nor were Spaniards the only Europeans on the premises. Tony Horwitz is the bestselling author of Midnight Rising, A Voyage Long and Strange, 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 Martha's Vineyard with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their two sons. What follows is the author's tracing of this missing history including Spanish and French explorers who crisscrossed North America following rivers, lakes and coasts and meeting with the American Indians they met along the way. Here he looks at the general population’s accepted facts about the founding of America and turns them upside down. The Spanish didn’t just explore: they settled, from the Rio Grande to the Atlantic. While a tourist at Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realized that, for him, the years between Columbus' landing in 1492 and the Pilgrim's Mayflower voyage in 1620 were a complete void. He spends time in St. Augustine, FL, site of the first permanent European settlement within the boundaries of the US, tours Roanoke Island, NC, site of the Lost Colony, and explores the archaeological site at Jamestown, VA. After I read Tony Horwitz' previous book, Blue Latitudes, I loved it so much I read every Horwitz book I could get my hands on. To shed light on the American "Dark Ages," Tony Horwitz follows the trails, literally by car, blazed by the Vikings, Spanish, French and English explorers and exploiters. I first read Confederates in The Attic by him, and liked it so much, that I read all of his books, basically what he does, is he gives you the history of the places he's going to visit. To him it seemed like there was a gap that was generally left blank and unexplained as if nothing of note had occurred. It's like religion--beyond facts. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves. In his travels, he explores the Dominican Republic, where Columbus landed in 1492, retraces the path of Hernando de Soto through what is now the southeastern US, and visits sites in the Southw. All of these occurred long before the English came late to the party. Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2020. It totally worked in. Get this from a library! I realised I am so clueless when it comes to the founding of our nation. Even less remembered are the Portuguese pilots who steered Spanish ships along both coasts of the continent in the sixteenth century, probing upriver to Bangor, Maine, and all the way to Oregon. Anyone. Before long, the portico was packed: tour bus groups, foreign sightseers, summer campers. Anglo bias seemed the obvious culprit, but it didn’t altogether explain Americans’ amnesia. ", Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2017. He's an amazing researcher. Plymouth Rock. I came to this book full of expectations and intrigue, after Horwitz's phenomenal pop-historical jaunt through the weirdness of neo-Confederate headlines and Dixie locales in "Confederates in the Attic." Recommended to Susanna - Censored by GoodReads by: While a tourist at Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realized that, for him, the years between Columbus' landing in 1492 and the Pilgrim's Mayflower voyage in 1620 were a complete void. You might know comedian Colin Jost from his work as the co-anchor of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, or perhaps you know him as Scarlett... On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus’s sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. This was the forgotten first chapter of my own country’s founding by Europeans, a chapter mysteriously redacted from the textbooks of my youth—and, as far as I knew, from national memory. Claire Olsen was a veteran park ranger at Plymouth, accustomed to hearing tourists abuse the sacred stone. By the time the first English settled, other Europeans had already reached half of the forty-eight states that today make up the continental United States. Horwitz has an ear for a good yarn and an instinct for the trail leading to an entertaining anecdote.” ―The Washington Post, “Honest, wonderfully written, and heroically researched…. . That’s just how I read it - one chapter at a time, pausing (sometimes for months) to pick up other things. “You just passed it.”. I found this book to be very enjoyable. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. Among the absolute worst. And there it has remained, a day of national gluttony, retail pageantry, TV football, and remembrance of the Pilgrims, a folk so austere that they regarded Christmas as a corrupt Papist holiday.”, “The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. That was the sum of what I dredged up. I would say definitely pick up this book if you are interested in learning more about who the earliest settlers of America were, where the went, what they did, and how they affected the native peoples. This book needs a more manageable title. Anyone. Horwitz looks at most of the major voyages of exploration and colonization before the Pilgrims came to Mass. Tony Horwitz is the bestselling author of Midnight Rising, A Voyage Long and Strange, Blue Latitudes, Confederates in the Attic, andBaghdad Without a Map. This book would scare the pants off people worried about religions and cultures that foster violence and religious war. "Myth trumps fact, always does, always has, always will", Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2015, So said a Harvard clergyman participating in annual Forefathers' Day festivities in Plymouth, Massachusetts. This would have made a great serial in a magazine, one chapter published each month or quarter. Expensively educated at a private school and university—a history major, no less!—I’d matriculated to middle age with a third grader’s grasp of early America. Tony Horwitz makes a rather startling confession in his introduction to "A Voyage Long and Strange." ON THE TRAIL OF VIKINGS, CONQUISTADORS, LOST COLONISTS, AND OTHER ADVENTURERS IN EARLY AMERICA. AbeBooks.com: A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World: 6½"x9½"; 445 pages; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. Nicely done. Dustjacket is not price-clipped and has a clear polyester book jacket cover. Billed as the history of the discovery of the new world, the book was actually almost entirely about the experiences of the author in traveling around to research the history of the new world. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! In this informative, whimsical, and thoroughly enjoyable account, Horwitz describes the exploits of various explorers and conquistadores and enriches the stories with his own experiences when visiting some of the lands they "discovered." Even though Horwitz is honing on the period European colonisation of the US, it demonstrates the somewhat, fluidity, of historical accounts and what ‘actually’ took place. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (English Edition) eBook: Horwitz, Tony: Amazon.de: Kindle Store Select Your Cookie Preferences We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. in 1620: the Vikings in Newfoundland around 1000 AD; Columbus; then the Spanish in FL and the SE and the SW US (including Coronado going all the way up to Kansas in 1542, and Cabeza de Vaca's bizarre journey from FL all. The most common question, though, concerned the date etched into the rock’s surface. It's always informative, often funny and always eye opening. If you are a To y Horowitz fan, you will like this one, too. 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.. 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