Tony Horowitz, Author, Tony Horwitz, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-24960-3
Horwitz, London-based reporter for the Wall Street Journal , visited several Muslim countries plus Israel in 1988-89, sometimes accompanied by his equally intrepid wife. In Yemen he sampled qat , a narcotic, and bought a souvenir dagger, becoming ``p
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Tony Horwitz, Author . Holt $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6541-1
In an entertaining, informative look at the life and travels of Capt. James Cook, Horwitz (Confederates in the Attic; Baghdad Without a Map) combines a sharp eye for reporting with subtle wit and a wonderful knack for drawing out the many characters
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Tony Horwitz, Author . Holt $27.50 (445p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7603-5
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As opposed to the Pilgrims, Tony Horwitz begins his journey at Plymouth Rock.
Plymouth Rock is a myth. The Pilgrims—who, Horwitz notes, were on a mission that was based less on freedom and the schoolbook
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Tony Horwitz, Author Pantheon Books $27.5 (406p) ISBN 978-0-679-43978-3
The first book the author's Russian grandfather bought on emigrating to the U.S., though he neither read nor spoke English, was about the Civil War, a book he still pored over into his 90s. And when Horwitz was a child, his father read him tales of...
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Tony Horwitz, Author, Tony Horwitz, Read by Random House Audio $31.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-1723-5
Horwitz was a smart choice to read his wonderful book about all he-and we-didn't know about American history, and he's done an excellent abridgement , choosing parts from his long work that work best in audio form. This is as far from a series of...
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Tony Horwitz, Author, Michael Beck, Performed by Random House Audio Publishing Group $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-52583-0
Horowitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign war correspondent, returned to his native U.S. turf to tackle the subject of our own Civil War and how its history is actively replayed by scores of grown men. He spent time among the hard-core buffs, the...
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Tony Horwitz, Author, Pat Mulcahy, Editor Vintage Books USA $6.95 (2p) ISBN 978-0-394-75817-6
Having spent months in Sydney without seeing the ``real'' Australia, American journalist Horwitz sets out to hitchhike solo through the continent's rugged interior. He discovers this to be infernally hot, flat and fly-ridden, with the only above-grou
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Tony Horwitz. Penguin Press, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-1-101-98028-6
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Horwitz (Confederates in the Attic) follows the trail of Frederick Law Olmsted, 19th-century reporter and legendary landscape architect, across the American South in this expansive and generously conceived...
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