Tony Horwitz Knihy

Odvážná výprava po stopách kapitána Cooka Výprava za třemi objevitelskými plavbami slavného mořeplavce kapitána Jamese Cooka. Autor, zkušený žurnalista, se vydává na svoji objevitelskou výpravu v Cookových stopách. V knize líčí své zážitky a propojuje je s informacemi získanými z deníků, které si mořeplavec na cestách psal. Jeho cílem není pouhé navštívení míst, která kapitán Cook objevil pro západní svět a pečlivě zanesl do svých map. Hledá odpovědi na otázky kdo byl tento člověk pocházející z nejchudších vrstev britské společnosti, proč se vydával na své nebezpečné cesty, do neznámých míst a jak na něj působilo vše, s čím se zde setkal. Zajímá se také o pohled z druhé strany - jak objevitelé a po nich další cestovatelé ovlivnili do té doby neznámé obyvatelstvo, jeho kulturu a jaký odkaz tam dodnes zanechali.

This volume investigates the ties in the United States; South among citizens to the American Civil War that ended more than 130 years previously. The author reports on contemporary attitudes on the Civil War and how it is discussed and taught, as well as attitudes about race. Written in the form of dispatches posted at varying times, it recounts the author's Civil War explorations in the South. Some of his encounters are humerous, but many open a window into the tragic state of the US's chasmic divisions

W hat happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he doesn't have a clue, nor do most Americans. So he sets off across the continent to rediscover the wild era when Europeans first roamed the New World in quest of gold, glory, converts, and eternal youth. Horwitz tells the story of these brave and often crazed explorers while retracing their steps on his own epic trek--an odyssey that takes him inside an Indian sweat lodge in subarctic Canada, down the Mississippi in a canoe, on a road trip fueled by buffalo meat, and into sixty pounds of armor as a conquistador reenactor in Florida. A Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mix of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America's history vividly to life.

"The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders. More than 150 years later, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the saddle--through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi, through Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and across Texas to the Rio Grande, discovering and reporting on vestiges of what Olmsted called the Cotton Kingdom"-- Provided by publisher

With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of Arabia to offer startling close-ups of a volatile region few Westerners understand. His quest for hot stories takes him from the tribal wilds of Yemen to the shell-pocked shores of Lebanon; from the malarial sands of the Sudan to the eerie souks of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a land so secretive that even street maps and weather reports are banned.As an oasis in the Empty Quarter, a veiled woman offers tea and a mysterious declaration of love. In Cairo, "politeness police" patrol seedy nightclubs to ensure that belly dancers don't show any belly. And at the Ayatollah's funeral in Tehran a mourner chants, "Death to America," then confesses to the author his secret dream--to visit Disneyland.Careening through thirteen Muslim countries and Israel, Horwitz travels light, packing a keen eye, a wicked sense of humor, and chutzpah in almost suicidal measure. This wild and comic tale of Middle East misadventure reveals a fascinating world in which the ancient and the modern collide.

Dit boek bevat reisverhalen van een jonge Amerikaanse journalist die in de jaren tachtig in het Midden-Oosten rondtrekt. Tony Horwitz is als freelance-reporter voortdurend op zoek naar actuele verhalen en bezoekt ondermeer Egypte, de malariagebieden van Soedan, de stammen van Jemen, de Libanese kust, de chemische fabrieken van Khadagi en het Iran ten tijd van Khomeini en is aanwezig bij diens begrafenis. In een vlotte en prettig leesbare stijl beschrijft hij zijn indrukken en contacten met de plaatselijke bevolking. Met oog voor detail en gevoel voor humor, maar ook met liefde, beschrijft hij de eigenaardigheden die hem als westerling opvallen in de diverse landen. Een boeiend en herkenbaar boek. (Biblion recensie, Marianne Hermens.)