
A Voyage Long and Strange
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Tony Horwitz
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By:
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Tony Horwitz
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 Leon's 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.
An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.
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I liked the contrasts between history and current circumstances as the author discovered our past by being there, now.
I followed along listening with the printed version and benefited from the maps and photos in the book. Spoiler alert: The author's reading varies from the printed text. Does Audible provide such images?
Enlightened history!
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Specifically, this book is Horwitz's attempt to fill in the "gap" in knowledge about the period bewtteen Columbus' landing in 1492 and the arrival of English settlers at Jamestown. Sound dull? It really isn't and Horwitz makes it so interesting that the era will come alive. This, for me, was a very satisfying listen and I suspect that others will not be disappointed.
This book is well read and wonderful to listen to. There are surprises at every turn. Even those with little or no interest in US History (perhaps their love for the topic was killed early in school), might well test the old ears with this one.
An Eye Openr
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Parallel Voyages
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A great read/listen
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I would have been happier with a bit less on the present-day goings on at many of the sites discussed in the book and the detailed descriptions of activities of some of the descendants of the earlier peoples. Frankly, a very long discussion of the process of sitting in a smoke-filled, very hot tent as some sort of reenactment of an old ritual was pretty boring.
The few negatives I perceived were far outweighed, though, by the positives.
Tony Horwitz is a better writer than he is a narrator. I found his voice and spoken style (and too-frequently mispronounced words) to be a bit grating. The audio book would have benefitted form a better narrator.
But it is DEFINITELY worth your time.
Interesting, informative
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