Coast to Coast - Softcover

Morris, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571241778 ISBN 13: 9780571241774

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2010

Synopsis

Fresh from her successful scoop reporting the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Jan Morris spent a year journeying across the United States, by car, train, ship and aeroplane. In herwords a "period piece", Coast to Coast describes an American identity markedly different from today. In her brilliant prose, Morris records with exuberence and curiosity a time of innocence in the US - when television was in its infancy, the Big Mac had not been invented and the popular song of the day was "Chattanooga Choo-Choo".

About this title

Book Description:

Jan Morris's very first book, an account of her tour of 1950s America, reissued with a new introduction.

About the Author:

Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother. She lives now 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 and Conundrum. She is also the author of six books about cities and countries, two autobiographical books, several volumes of collected travel essays and the unclassifiable Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. In 2018 she was recognised for her outstanding contribution to travel writing by the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, and published her most recent book, In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0571241778
• ISBN 13: 9780571241774
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256