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Lädt ... Coast to Coastvon Jan Morris
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For those of us who love America but are dismayed by its imperial swagger, this is the perfect book. In 1953, Jan (then James) Morris spent a year travelling from New York to Los Angeles. The result is an outstanding work by our finest travel writer, a portrait of a nation that was still "bursting with bright optimism, generous, unpretentious... basking in its universal popularity".
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The journey, undertaken when she was still James, is marvelously evocative and is as detailed as her other works. The travel narrative is as engaging as Theroux or Jonathan Raban (with whom she is friends) with her particular eye for historical details that become almost prophecies.
I recommend it as an ideal `entry point' to enjoying this historians writing for anyone not yet an aficionado and collector of her works.