continent, long before the Mayflower landed. 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. Horwitz decides to find out, and in A Voyage Long and Strange he uncovers the neglected story of America’s founding by Europeans. 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. 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. On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery.
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