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Letters from America : Travels in the USA and Canada

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Intimate exploration of early 20th-century North America.

If you're drawn to the perspectives of bygone eras and enjoy seeing familiar places through the fresh eyes of an outsider, this collection will charm you. Rupert Brooke's vivid prose and candid observations transport you back in time, offering a valuable and often entertaining glimpse into the cultural and natural wonders of early 20th-century America and Canada. It's like sifting through a treasure chest of historical postcards — each letter paints a scene and captures the essence of an adventurer's wonder.

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Letters from America : Travels in the USA and Canada

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ISBN: 9781843914334
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Date of Publication: 2007-10-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Travel, History, Biographies & Memoirs
Goodreads rating: 3.48
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In May 1913, Rupert Brooke embarked on a year-long expedition of North America, visiting the United States, Canada, and finally the South Seas. He sent his impressions home in a series of letters, written for publication in the Westminster Gazette , describing all his various experiences and the beauty of arriving by boat at night in New York; the novelties of a baseball game; the awesome grandeur of Niagara Falls and the Canadian wilderness; and "the full deliciousness of traveling in an American train by night through new scenery." He is blunt in his judgments on society, business, and cities; playful in his accounts of Anglo-American relations; and finally humbled by the vastness of the landscape in which he finds himself. Henry James's foreword to the collection on its publication in 1916 is included here as an afterword.
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Intimate exploration of early 20th-century North America.

If you're drawn to the perspectives of bygone eras and enjoy seeing familiar places through the fresh eyes of an outsider, this collection will charm you. Rupert Brooke's vivid prose and candid observations transport you back in time, offering a valuable and often entertaining glimpse into the cultural and natural wonders of early 20th-century America and Canada. It's like sifting through a treasure chest of historical postcards — each letter paints a scene and captures the essence of an adventurer's wonder.