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To: average joe who wrote (783)	5/2/2008 11:03:05 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 9622

The original recommendation for this book goes a little further back than I indicated earlier. I must get it. Message 24209591

To: average joe who wrote (783)	5/4/2008 3:18:49 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9622

This sounds promising... A Voyage Long and Strange By Tony Horwitz WSJ Book Review: "Mr. Horwitz has plenty of arguments to advance: about race relations, about cultural misunderstanding, about the heavy hand of the past and the nature of memory. He is well aware of the tragic ironies -- for instance, that the Taino Indians are physically extinct, even as words they gave us, such as "barbecue," live on in every suburban tract and trailer park, their provenance forgotten. But his touch is generally light, and he knows that, for all the serious talking points, he's also off on something of a romp. Fans of "Confederates in the Attic" will be delighted to know that the ranks of historical re-enactors he encounters include Norsemen and conquistadors. Mr. Horwitz meets some of the former at L'Anse aux Meadows, in Newfoundland, where the Norse established a settlement a thousand years ago. Entering a reconstructed sod longhouse, he meets a woman stirring a cauldron. "May I offer you some blubber?" she asks. From the shadows a man calls out, "Bera, you lazy thrall, bring me my mead." In Naples, Fla., Mr. Horwitz joins up with a group of weekenders who style themselves members of De Soto's expedition, sweltering in homemade breastplates under the midday sun. "What should I bring?" he had asked the captain when making arrangements the night before. "A nasty attitude," came the reply. And aboard a replica of the Mayflower, in Massachusetts, he makes conversation with a deckhand who lapses out of the dialect of 17th-century East Anglia long enough to say, "No one would be doing this if it wasn't for Monty Python." online.wsj.com [See also excerpt] len