![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His voyage may be long, but Horwitz is a sympathetic narrator and makes it a smooth ride for the reader: He's as companionable a traveler as anyone would want on a road trip. Tony Horwitz revives this little-known history in his wonderful new book, "A Voyage Long and Strange." As he did in "Confederates in the Attic" and "Blue Latitudes" - which explored the legacies of the Civil War and the explorer James Cook, respectively - Horwitz travels to remote, often forbidding places to see how the past lives on, or more often doesn't, in the present.Ī former journalist who will engage anyone in conversation - the word colorful cannot do justice to some of the characters he meets - Horwitz has written another travelogue that's consistently eye-opening and entertaining. In his journeys across the Atlantic Ocean, Columbus was convinced that he was traversing this curvaceous globe toward its nipple - whose tip was home to the Garden of Eden.įew of us may be aware of this marvelous historical nugget, but there's plenty more about the so-called discovery of the New World that will come as a surprise. ![]() What children do not learn: The explorer believed the planet was shaped like a breast. Christopher Columbus, as any schoolkid will tell you, did not think the Earth was flat. ![]()
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