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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz

by Elinor Teele

August 6th, 2008

Gold, jewels – that was what the new world promised and that was what the Spanish demanded. It is the same paradox that had English settlers starving on the shore while lobsters scuttled underfoot. If it wasn’t what they had imagined, it didn’t exist.

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