'A Voyage Long and Strange' to America's past [audio 9min]
In his new book, A Voyage Long and Strange, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz chronicles the exploration of America that occurred before Jamestown.
Horowitz started tracing the steps of the French and Spanish explorers, discovering that some of the early adventurers made it much farther inland that most Americans realize. In the 1540s, Coronado and his horseman galloped all the way to central Kansas — almost the exact geographic center of the continent. Once there, says Horwitz, they marveled over the flatness of the landscape and the "sea of grass" before them. Says Horwitz, "I don't think this is the way most Americans think about their early history,".
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Horowitz started tracing the steps of the French and Spanish explorers, discovering that some of the early adventurers made it much farther inland that most Americans realize. In the 1540s, Coronado and his horseman galloped all the way to central Kansas — almost the exact geographic center of the continent. Once there, says Horwitz, they marveled over the flatness of the landscape and the "sea of grass" before them. Says Horwitz, "I don't think this is the way most Americans think about their early history,".