Sarah Bagby's Book Reviews A Voyage Long and Strange: Re- discovering the New World (Henry Holt & Co.)
5.26.08
Sam Cooke famously sang, "Don't know much about history," in his hit song, "Wonderful World." And for many, history seems a dusty subject they could easily do without. Thankfully, author Tony Horwitz is changing all that.
A history major, Pulitzer Prize winner, former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and staff writer with the New Yorker, Horwitz brought both insight and humor to historical topics in books like "Bagdad Without A Map," "Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War," and "Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before."
Describing himself as a "middleman" between scholars and general readers, and his books as works of "participatory history," Horwitz follows a path from events and places in the present to reveal what they tell us about the past.
That's certainly the case with his latest effort, as KMUW book critic Sarah Bagby explains in her latest review.
"A Voyage Long and Strange" is the next KMUW Literary Feast selection. And listen to Sarah Bagby's book reviews the 2nd and 4th Mondays of every month.
