All Gone to Look for America

At the age of 52, with a shoestring budget, a backpack and an open mind, Peter Millar set about rediscovering the US, by following the last traces of the technological wonder that created the country in the first place: the railroad. On a rail network ravaged and reduced he managed to cross the continent two and half times, talking to people, taking in their stories and their concerns, shaking stereotypes and challenging preconceptions, while watching the vast American landscape that most visitors fly over unfold in slow motion. In the tradition of Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux, wry, witty, intelligent and always observant, this 'inland empire' should appeal to modern Britons keen to get beneath the skin of the country that more than any other influences their lives, and to intelligent Americans open to an oblique look at their own country. And, of course, railway lovers everywhere.

ISBN 1906413630   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781906413637 (What's this?)   Pages 319 Publisher Arcadia Books   Published in London Imprint Arcadia Books   Height (mm) 198 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 129 Publication date 30 Mar 2010   Academic level General DEWEY 917.04

1		Manhattan Transfer		1
2		A Whole New Ball Game		13
3		Grand Departures		28
4		Close to the Edge		40
5		Buffalo's Bill		56
6		Hell of a Town		71
7		Willkommen		86
8		Big Sky		98
9		Cretaceous Park		115
10		Bingo		128
11		Gates of America		143
12		Terminates Here!		159
13		After the Gold Rush		172
14		All the Way in Reno		185
15		Heavens Above		197
16		Downhill to Denver		211
17		A Mountain Lying Down		228
18		Angels and Demons		244
19		N'Awlins		268
20		Walking in Memphis		282
21		Ghosts in the Machine		305
22		All Hallows' Eve		314
		The Soundtrack		317
		The Beers		318

'He writes with a confidence and an historical grasp that compel the reader to take his scary theories seriously' Marcel Berlins in The Times on Bleak Midwinter

 Be the first to write a customer review