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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 heard 'the call of the wild'. Whether sleuthing through riot-racked Los Angeles in the footsteps of Philip Marlowe, crossing the Arizona Desert on Route 66 like Steinbeck's Depression-era migrant workers or searching for the characters of Cannery Row in Monterey, Young brilliantly uses the past to illuminate the present. 'Gavin Young is perpetually inquisitive, racially colour-blind, intrepid, reflective and gregarious ...plainly a man in a million, and a writer in two' - Bernard Levin. 'He catches the mind's eye of the reader very deftly ...and, without losing his sense of irony, gives us a genuine account of the tragedy and the pathos, as well as the optimism and bravery, that created American civilization' - Christoper Hitchens, "Mail on Sunday".

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: From Sea to Shining Sea
• Subtitle: A Present Day Journey into America's Past
• Author: Gavin Young
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9780571252169
• ISBN: 0571252168
• ID: 04624027
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 394 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 136 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. June 2009

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