Chris Nicholson's Writing Weblog
February 18, 2009 • Wednesday
I just finished reading Tony Horwitz' 2008 book, A Voyage Long and Strange.
The concept of the book is that when getting our grade-school education, we learn that Columbus came to America in 1492, and the Pilgrims landed about one century later — but few of us know what happened on these shores in between. And it as it turns out, a lot happened. The author researched the European exploration of America and visited the sites to see what's happening there today.
This isn't Horwitz's best book (one of my favorite non-fictions by any author is Horwitz' Confederates in the Attic), but it's educational and mostly a decent read.
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