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    <body><![CDATA[Every school kid is taught that Columbus &quot;discovered&quot; America in 1492 and that the Pilgrims stepped onto a rock in 1620, but what happened in between?  To shed light on the American &quot;Dark Ages,&quot; Tony Horwitz follows the trails, literally by car, blazed by the Vikings, Spanish, Fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31628295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this work Horwitz fills in the gaping chasm of knowledge we have regarding the exploration of North America by Europeans.  Columbus' first landing on his first (of four) voyages WAS incredibly important.  So were excursions by the Erikson family, de Leon, da Vaca, Coronado, de Soto and a host of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28722267">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/18-9780805076035-0">Early America</a> is weird. There are lots of lost people, lots of cannibalism, vanished expeditions, cities of gold, and a whole lot of maltreatment of natives. Horwitz's history-tourism stuff is always fun and entertaining, and he somehow manages to hook up with a good bunch of cranks and nutsos to tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23706099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the 2nd Tony Horwitz book I've read; Confederates in the Attic was great, so I thought I'd give this a try.  I really enjoyed it.  Although, I did read this while sitting next to a pool in Puerto Vallarta in early January sipping many margaritas, so perhaps that's why I was laughing.  Anyway...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47163499">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't love the end conclusion to this book... it was pretty basic and I guess I expected more. BUT, it's a fabulously interesting tale of the true discovery(s) of America. I loved that the author, a journalist, actually followed the trails of the various Norse, conquistadors, and other explorers ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43128542">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From Vikings to Pilgrims, this delightful book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Tony Horwitz uncovers historical facts in a way that is exciting and, at times, quite humorous.  The neat thing about his books is that they are also &quot;travelogues&quot; - he actually follows ancient routes and trave...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63093795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Horwitz has a knack for insightful, quirky, topical treatments of his subjects, and <em>A Voyage Long and Strange</em> is vintage stuff, recalling the pace and the scope of Horwitz's earlier books and reaffirming that the author has never met a character or a situation that he couldn't transform into an enga...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45463352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I came to this book full of expectations and intrigue, after Horwitz's phenomenal pop-historical jaunt through the weirdness of neo-Confederate headlines and Dixie locales in &quot;Confederates in the Attic.&quot;  The subject of public memory, as its predecessor, is also a topic near and dear to my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68899840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tony Horwitz tells the story of the settling of North America with an eye trained on the oddities that make the ancient and current crop of Americans hilarious when viewed with a jaundiced eye.  In a fit of pique, he refuses to start his story with the Pilgrims, instead following the adventures of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65241063">more...</a>]]></body>
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