From Sea to Shining Sea - A Present Day Journey into America's Past (Paperback, Main)

Gavin Young' s North American odyssey took him from Central Park and the old Atlantic whaling ports all the way to a tiny cabin in the Yukon, where Jack London heard 'the call of the wild'. Whether sleuthing through riot-racked Los Angeles in the footsteps of Philip Marlowe, crossing the Arizona Desert on Route 66 like Steinbeck's Depression-era migrant workers or searching for the characters of Cannery Row in Monterey, Young brilliantly uses the past to illuminate the present. 'Gavin Young is perpetually inquisitive, racially colour-blind, intrepid, reflective and gregarious ... plainly a man in a million, and a writer in two.' Bernard Levin 'He catches the mind's eye of the reader very deftly ... and, without losing his sense of irony, gives us a genuine account of the tragedy and the pathos, as well as the optimism and bravery, that created American civilization.' Christoper Hitchens, Mail on Sunday

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2009
First published:	June 2009
Authors:	Gavin Young
Dimensions:	135 x 216 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	312
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-25216-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General Books > History > American history > General Books > Travel > Travel writing > General
LSN:	0-571-25216-8
Barcode:	9780571252169

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