A Voyage Long and Strange

Why it’s on the list: Horwitz travels the century between Columbus and Plymouth — Vikings, Coronado, De Soto, Roanoke — the part of American origin that got dropped from the story.

Where I heard about it

• Replies to @typesfast — named in the answers to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (the thread, June 2025). The full list of replies is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).

Connections

• What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
• History · Discovery · Migration — where this sits in the corpus.