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A Voyage Long and Strange audiobook
- By: Tony Horwitz
- Narrator: John H. Mayer
- Category: Expeditions & Discoveries, History
- Length: 17 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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A Voyage Long and Strange Audiobook 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. Did nothing happen in between?
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, 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 León’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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A Voyage Long and Strange Full Details
| Narrator | John H. Mayer |
| Length | 17 hours 14 minutes |
| Author | Tony Horwitz |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781415943960 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A Voyage Long and Strange is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: world history, exploration, explorers, history books, history, navigation, cartography, history teacher gifts, history gifts, gifts for history buffs, historical books, history buff gifts, history lovers gifts, american history, historical, adventure, us history, geography, british history, military, pirates, anthropology, essays, classic, nature, americana, european history, education, culture, 19th century, war, biography, modern, sailing, travel writing, journalism, sociology, trivia, food, survival, school, genealogy, wanderlust, History, Expeditions & Discoveries, History, North America, History, Historical Geography The BISAC Subject Code is Expeditions & Discoveries, History
Additional info
The publisher of the A Voyage Long and Strange is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781415943960.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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