Results for: books tagged ‘America’
The General from America: Richard Nelson
Can you betray your country, when your country has betrayed itself? In 1780, America's most successful General believed the War of Independence had lost its way. He decided to surrender ... More
San Diego: David Greig
San Diego weaves together a series of connecting and diverging stories, merging threads that stretch around the globe into a single compelling narrative of tremendous scope; stories of illegal immigrants, ... More
Terrible Times: Philip Ardagh
In this final book in the trilogy, Eddie had been given the task of travelling to America to look after his family's interests there. But his life is never that ... More
The Great Port: Jan Morris
Movement is the raison d’etre of New York. In The Great Port, Jan Morris explores the waterfronts and thoroughfares of 1950's Manhattan just as she navigated the canals of Venice; ... More
Lincoln: Jan Morris
When Jan Morris first visited the United States, she was overwhelmed (and irritated) by the national obsession with Abraham Lincoln: the homespun myth of the awkward six-foot-four country boy who ... More
It Still Moves: Amanda Petrusich
Wonderfully engaging and insightful, this is a glorious personal journey through the landscape of American roots music in all its forms. More
Prohibition: Andrew Sinclair
The prohibition of liquor in the United States from 1920 to 1933 created the myth of the flapper and gangster. Andrew Sinclair's account was the first comprehensive study and it ... More
Man in the Dark: Paul Auster
Picture an America where the twin towers did not fall, a country not at war with Iraq but with itself. That's exactly what August Brill, the writer at the centre of Paul Auster's Man in the Dark, does ... More
From Sea to Shining Sea: Gavin Young
Gavin Young' s North American odyssey took him from Central Park and the old Atlantic whaling ports all the way to a tiny cabin in the Yukon, where Jack London ... More
Coast to Coast: Jan Morris
Jan Morris's very first book, an account of her tour of 1950s America, reissued with a new introduction. More
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