The Pulitzer Prize is writing's Academy Award, and Tony Horwitz was awarded one in 1995 as an investigative journalist for the Wall Street Journal. The release of his newest book, A Voyage Long And Strange, brings him to Nichols School for their 2009 Prince Lecture. The lecture will be held in the Reading Room in Albright Hall on the Nichols campus this Sunday, May 17th, at 4PM.
A top 10 New York Times Best Seller, A Voyage Long And Strange chronicles Horwitz's travels across the continent in an attempt to recreate similiar voyages made by European explorers during this land's infancy. The journey took him across Canada, down the Mississippi in a canoe, and even to Florida, where he donned the famous armor of Spanish conquistadors in that sweltering heat as they searched for the mythical fountain of youth. The book is an exciting mix of historical scholarship and personal experience.
Horwitz is also the author of Blue Latitudes, A Confederate In The Attic, and Baghdad Without A Map, and is also a former journalist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
There will also be a book signing following the lecture with copies of the new release available for purchase by Talking Leaves.
(Cover photo: Randy Baird, Brown University)
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A top 10 New York Times Best Seller, A Voyage Long And Strange chronicles Horwitz's travels across the continent in an attempt to recreate similiar voyages made by European explorers during this land's infancy. The journey took him across Canada, down the Mississippi in a canoe, and even to Florida, where he donned the famous armor of Spanish conquistadors in that sweltering heat as they searched for the mythical fountain of youth. The book is an exciting mix of historical scholarship and personal experience.
Horwitz is also the author of Blue Latitudes, A Confederate In The Attic, and Baghdad Without A Map, and is also a former journalist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
There will also be a book signing following the lecture with copies of the new release available for purchase by Talking Leaves.
(Cover photo: Randy Baird, Brown University)
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