A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

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 hap…

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