Roger Hutchinson

Walking to America

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“Walking To America” follows and recreates the immense journey, in search of a new life and of a miracle doctor who could cure the blindness of one of their number. The journey was taken largely on foot by a small working-class family unit from England in the 1880s, to Liverpool, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and back again. Written as travelogue and as a history of one of the great neglected subjects — the New World immigrants who returned home to the Old, “Walking to America” is a personal tale, full of characterisation and human stories, based upon received lore, followed footsteps and careful historical research.An epic, covering thousands of miles and cultures and environments as diverse as the Victorian UK coalfields, the great imperial entrepot of Liverpool, the post-bellum American south, roaring 1880s New Orleans, the stew of the free-for-all Pittsburgh mines, Texas in the wake of the Alamo, the unclaimed Indian Territory of North America and the ultimate frontier of the Petrified Forest in Arizona — all seen through the eyes of a small group of identifiable and sympathetic, real and ordinary men, women and children from the north-east of England. “Walking to America” is a great and gripping adventure of discovery, hope and loss. And it is all true.
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230 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013
Publisher
Birlinn
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