A Voyage Long and Strange

[washa_way]

I just finished reading an ARC of Tony Horwitz's new book, A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World.  In it, he covers the ground discovered, conquered, and/or colonized by all those European explorers we learned about back in fifth grade.  We get a few mentions of such South American conquerors as Cortez, Pizarro, and Balboa, but the

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[likeadeuce]

Oh, excellent. I'll be looking out for this one.

'Confederates' is one of my very favorite books, and I've enjoyed his others as well.

[washa_way]

I'm a big Confederates fan as well. I saw him speaking on the subject once, and he said something I've always remembered: that there is no South--there are multiple Souths. He described this in terms of crossing the VA/TN border on I-81 and seeing the two state welcome centers: the Virginia center built like Tara, a huge white plantation house with columns and a veranda, with the Tennessee center duded up as a log cabin.