American Journeys

American Journeys
Author :
Publisher : Random House Australia
Total Pages : 350
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781742744506
ISBN-13 : 1742744508
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Book Synopsis American Journeys by : Don Watson

Download or read book American Journeys written by Don Watson and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb book about Don Watson's journeys around America. Featured as one of Newsweek’s 50 ‘What to Read Now and Why’ titles. Only in America - the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything - are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys acclaimed author Don Watson set out to explore the nation that has influenced him more than any other. Travelling by rail gave Watson a unique and seductive means of peering into the United States, a way to experience life with its citizens: long days with the American landscape and American towns and American history unfolding on the outside, while inside a tiny particle of the American people talked among themselves. Watson's experiences are profoundly affecting: he witnesses the terrible aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast; explores the savage history of the Deep South, the heartland of the Civil War; and journeys to the remarkable wilderness of Yellowstone National Park. Yet it is through the people he meets that Watson discovers the incomparable genius of America, its optimism, sophistication and riches - and also its darker side, its disavowal of failure and uncertainty. Beautifully written, with gentle power and sly humour, American Journeys investigates the meaning of the United States: its confidence, its religion, its heroes, its violence, and its material obsessions. The things that make America great are also its greatest flaws.


American Journeys Related Books

American Journeys
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Don Watson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-01 - Publisher: Random House Australia

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A superb book about Don Watson's journeys around America. Featured as one of Newsweek’s 50 ‘What to Read Now and Why’ titles. Only in America - the most p
Journeys
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Andrew Tisch
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-03 - Publisher: RosettaBooks

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Every family has a story of how they arrived in America, whether it was a few months, years, decades, or centuries ago. Journeys: An American Story celebrates t
America's Great River Journeys
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Tim Palmer
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-22 - Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An inspirational bucket list for anyone interested in rafting, kayaking, or canoeing—from armchair traveler to recreational paddler to hard-core white-water e
American Smoke
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Iain Sinclair
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-15 - Publisher: Macmillan

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The award-winning author of Downriver shares observations from his misadventures in America, during which he obsessively followed in the footsteps of such write
Roads Taken
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Hasia R. Diner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world’s Jews emigrated to new lands. Crossing borders and often oceans, they followed paths pave