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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Envious Nostalgia
Written in what must be the heyday of the American Dream - before it became soured - this is Jan Morris's lighter travel through a different empire, inducing envy for not having experienced it ourselves and nostalgia for an America that has passed. The journey, undertaken when she was still James, is marvelously evocative and is as detailed as her other works. The...
Published on January 9, 2007 by John the Reader
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1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Tedious, No Photos
Written about ten years before his sex change operation, this disappointing book is suprsingly dry and tedious. Thankfully, the author does express some definite opinions however many of the cities visited were not interesting. I gave up about half way through.
Published on November 22, 2009 by observer22
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Envious Nostalgia,
By John the Reader "John" (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America (Travelers' Tales Classics) (Paperback)
Written in what must be the heyday of the American Dream - before it became soured - this is Jan Morris's lighter travel through a different empire, inducing envy for not having experienced it ourselves and nostalgia for an America that has passed.
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 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.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Tedious, No Photos,
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This review is from: Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America (Travelers' Tales Classics) (Paperback)
Written about ten years before his sex change operation, this disappointing book is suprsingly dry and tedious. Thankfully, the author does express some definite opinions however many of the cities visited were not interesting. I gave up about half way through.
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Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America (Travelers' Tales Classics) by Jan Morris (Paperback - March 22, 2002)
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