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![]() Earlier books had the history buff tracing the journeys of Captain Cook and hitchhiking in the Australian outback. Horwitz has said he enjoys writing about extreme and uncomfortable places. Such travel is nothing new for a reporter who has covered Sudan, the Persian Gulf and Northern Ireland. This time, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer dresses up in the creaky armor of conquistador re-enactors in Florida. Horwitz previously wrote about the world of Civil War re-enactors in his book Confederates in the Attic. At the end of his journeys, Horwitz arrived with a better appreciation of the brutal history of the Americas - and an acquaintanceship with a cast of bizarre characters. He followed Christopher Columbus' trail to the Dominican Republic and Francisco Coronado's path through Mexico. He visited Plymouth, Roanoke Island and old Viking settlements in Newfoundland. ![]() So the author sprang into action and began a three-year odyssey across the continent to try to find answers. ![]() Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work.Īuthor Tony Horwitz decided to write A Voyage Long and Strange when he realized he knew almost nothing about the first Europeans to arrive in America - the people, as he puts it, between Columbus and the Pilgrims. Tony Horwitz Visits 'Confederates in the Attic'īook Tour is a Web feature and podcast. ![]()
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