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Henry Holt

Price: $27.50

TONY HORWITZ embarks on

A Voyage Long and Strange:
Rediscovering the New World

Harvard Book Store is excited to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist TONY HORWITZ as he tells of an eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America.

On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus’s sail in 1492 to Jamestown’s founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America.

A blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs—these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers.

Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek—from Florida’s Fountain of Youth to Plymouth’s sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges—Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.

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Event Information

DATE:	Monday, May 5th
TIME:	7:00 PM
LOCATION:	Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge
TICKETS:	This event is free; no tickets are required

Tony Horwitz is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He worked for many years as a reporter, mostly covering wars and conflicts as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. After returning to the States, he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker before becoming a full-time author.His books include Baghdad Without a Map, Confederates in the Attic, and Blue Latitudes. He lives with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their son, Nathaniel, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.