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

Morris, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885211791 ISBN 13: 9781885211798

Publisher: Travelers' Tales, 2002

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her books include Coronation Everest, Venice, The Pax Britannica Trilogy (Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell the Trumpets), and Conundrum. Hav, her novel, was published in a new and expanded form in 2006.

Review

"A delight to read...conveys 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

Edition details

• Publisher: Travelers' Tales
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1885211791
• ISBN 13: 9781885211798
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304