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All Gone to Look for America: Riding the Iron Horse Across a Continent (and Back) - Softcover

Millar, Peter

 
9781906413637: All Gone to Look for America: Riding the Iron Horse Across a Continent (and Back)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1906413630 ISBN 13: 9781906413637
Publisher: Arcadia Books, 2010

Synopsis

At the age of 52, with a shoestring budget, a backpack and an open mind, Peter Millar set about rediscovering the US, by following the last traces of the technological wonder that created the country in the first place: the railroad. On a rail network ravaged and reduced he managed to cross the continent two and half times, talking to people, taking in their stories and their concerns, shaking stereotypes and challenging preconceptions, while watching the vast American landscape that most visitors fly over unfold in slow motion. In the tradition of Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux, wry, witty, intelligent and always observant, this 'inland empire' should appeal to modern Britons keen to get beneath the skin of the country that more than any other influences their lives, and to intelligent Americans open to an oblique look at their own country. And, of course, railway lovers everywhere.

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About the Author

Peter Millar was an award-winning Northern Irish journalist, author and translator, and was a correspondent for Reuters, Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph. He was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year for his reporting on the dying stages of the Cold War, his account of which - 1989: The Berlin Wall, My Part in its Downfall - was named 'best read' by The Economist.

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Publisher
Arcadia Books
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1906413630
ISBN 13 
9781906413637
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
319