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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

Horwitz, Tony

Paperback

ExplorationGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 0312428324
ISBN13: 9780312428327
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Apr 27 2009
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

A rich mixture of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America's history vividly to life.

Consistently eye-opening and entertaining . . . [Horwitz is] as companionable a traveler as anyone would want on a road trip.
--San Francisco Chronicle

What happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620?

On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he doesn't have a clue, nor do most Americans. So he sets off across the continent to rediscover the wild era when Europeans first roamed the New World in quest of gold, glory, converts, and eternal youth. Horwitz tells the story of these brave and often crazed explorers while retracing their steps on his own epic trek--an odyssey that takes him inside an Indian sweat lodge in subarctic Canada, down the Mississippi in a canoe, on a road trip fueled by buffalo meat, and into sixty pounds of armor as a conquistador reenactor in Florida.

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