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In O My America!, the travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler embarks on a journey across the United States, guided by the adventures of six women who reinvented themselves as they chased the frontier west.
Wheeler's career has propelled her from pole to pole―camping in Arctic igloos, tracking Indian elephants, contemplating East African swamps so hot that toads explode―but as she stared down the uncharted territory of middle age, she found...
About the Author
Sara Wheeler is the author of many books of biography and travel, including Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990–2011 (NPP, 2013) and Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile. Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica was an international bestseller that The New York Times described as "gripping, emotional" and "compelling," and The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle (FSG, 2011) was chosen as Book of the...
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MERELY TELLING THE TRUTH
Fanny Trollope Goes to Ohio
Fanny Trollope was broke when she turned fifty, and on intimate terms with pig manure. She had made the three-month trek to Cincinnati, she said, “to hatch golden eggs for my son.” The frontier might have glittered, but not all of it was gold—Cincinnati turned out to be one big...
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- PublisherNorth Point Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0374534780
- ISBN 13 9780374534783
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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