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A review by hornj
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
3.0
I find Horwitz's style interesting - the way he merges history and a travel log memoir. The style enables him to merge the story from historians with how the common people he ran across in his travels remember what happened in the past.
His subject matter here is a good fit - he's covering a whole litany of lesser known explorers, so even his short summaries of their expeditions contain a lot of facts that most history buffs aren't familiar with. It's also a controversial subject, involving as it does conflicting views of how America was settled, both then and now. I learned quite a few things myself
That being said I didn't love it, and there was quite a bit of profanity that was in no way necessary.
His subject matter here is a good fit - he's covering a whole litany of lesser known explorers, so even his short summaries of their expeditions contain a lot of facts that most history buffs aren't familiar with. It's also a controversial subject, involving as it does conflicting views of how America was settled, both then and now. I learned quite a few things myself
That being said I didn't love it, and there was quite a bit of profanity that was in no way necessary.