Résultats pour "The Long Voyage" dans Histoire

On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a...

In 1768, John Long set out from Gravesend in England, bound for Canada and a position as a clerk. Quickly developing an affection for the First Nations people he encountered, he determined to learn native languages and thereby make him useful in the 'Indian Trade' living first among Mohawks at Cahnuaga (Kahnawake) and later, among Ojibwa and Cree people north of Lake Superior. Long's journal provides a thrilling depiction the life of a fur trader in the late 18th century. It is a dangerous world, where starvation, torture, murder, war, disease and misfortune are constant threats.

The Ride is one man's journey by bicycle through New Zealand, attempting to regain his health. Join him as he travels around the North and South Islands, including Queenstown, the Wanaka Air Show, Dunedin, the Whanganui River, White Island volcano, and the wonderful, relaxed small town of Whanganui. Mr. Main describes his background, his health issues, and goes into detail on his life-long fight with Lyme disease.