Books
Spying on the South
In the 1850s, as civil war loomed, a young writer went undercover, jolting Northern readers with his vivid dispatches about slavery and the militancy of its defenders.
BOOM
Tony’s wild trek through the tar sands of Canada and along the Keystone XL pipeline route.
Midnight Rising
Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war.
A Voyage Long and Strange
The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America.
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Two centuries after James Cook’s epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the Captain’s adventures and explore his embattled legacy in today’s Pacific.
Baghdad Without a Map
This wild and comic tale of Middle East misadventure is “a very funny and frequently insightful look at the world’s most combustible region. Fearlessness is a valuable quality in a travel writer, and Mr. Horwitz… seems as intrepid as they come.”
—The New York Times Book Review.
One for the Road
Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he hitchhikes off into the awesome emptiness of Australia’s outback.
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he’s put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again, this time from a war close to home and to his own heart.
“Tony Horwitz has done it again…Keen insight, open-mindedness and laugh-out-loud humor.”