Book description
Fresh from her successful scoop reporting the first ascent of
Everest in 1953, Jan Morris spent a year journeying across the United
States, by car, train, ship and aeroplane. In herwords a "period
piece", Coast to Coast describes an American identity markedly
different from today. In her brilliant prose, Morris records with
exuberence and curiosity a time of innocence in the US - when
television was in its infancy, the Big Mac had not been invented and
the popular song of the day was "Chattanooga Choo-Choo".
Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English
mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner
Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the
mountains and the sea. Her books include Coronation Everest, Venice,
The Pax Britannica Trilogy (Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica, and
Farewell the Trumpets), and Conundrum. Hav, her novel, was published
in a new and expanded form in 2006.
