Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America (Travelers' Tales Classics)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 304 pages
• Published by: Travelers' Tales March 22, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1885211791
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1885211798
• Book Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 13 ounces

Product Review
"A delight to readconveys with sustained excitement and remarkable accuracy the sights and sounds of the American scene." -- Sunday Times (London)

"The spirited writing, permeated with a sense of excitement and discovery, makes it a delight to read." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"This is one of the very best travel books, one of the very best impressions of contemporary America" -- The Saturday Review

Product Description
Following the recent publication of Jan Morris’s final book, here is her very first. Fresh from her success reporting on the first Everest ascent in 1953, she spent a year journeying by car, train, ship, and aircraft across the United States. “I did not know it then, and nor did America, but chance had brought me across the Atlantic at the very apex of American happiness,” writes Morris in her new introduction. The author was then James Morris, and America’s identity was different then, too. In brilliant prose, Morris records with exuberance and wonder a time of innocence in America. “The prose sparkles, and everything [Morris] tells glitters.” — San Francisco Chronicle

Reader Reviews
Written in what must be the heyday of the American Dream - before it became soured - this is Jan Morris's lighter travel through a different empire, inducing envy for not having experienced it ourselves and nostalgia for an America that has passed. The journey, undertaken when she was still James, is marvelously evocative and is as detailed as her other works. The travel narrative is as engaging as Theroux or Raban (with whom she is friends) with her particular eye for historical details that become almost prophecies. I recommend it as an ideal `entry point' to enjoying this historians writing for anyone not yet an aficionado and collector of her works.