O my America!: second acts in a new world
by Wheeler, Sara.
Material type: BookPublisher: Jonathan Cape 2013ISBN: 9780224090704; 9781409029441; 9781409029441; 1409029441; 0224090704.Classification number: 973.5092 WHESubject(s): British -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Women travelers -- United States -- History -- 19th century | United States -- Social conditions -- 19th centurySubject: After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as 'Terra Incognita' and 'The Magnetic North', Sara Wheeler rediscovered America 35 years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of 6 women who fled various sorts of trouble in 19th-century England and went to the United States to reinvent themselves.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book - Adult Hardback | Formby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 973.5092 WHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002826508X |
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973.3 BLA War for America: the fight for independence 1775-1783 | 973.3 MUR United States 1776-1992 | 973.31 SCH Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves and the American Revolution | 973.5092 WHE O my America!: | 973.523 SNO When Britain burned the White House: the 1814 invasion of Washington | 973.7 GAR Gardner's photographic sketchbook of the American Civil War 1861-1865 | 973.7 KAT The American Civil War source book |
Includes bibliographical references and index
After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as 'Terra Incognita' and 'The Magnetic North', Sara Wheeler rediscovered America 35 years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of 6 women who fled various sorts of trouble in 19th-century England and went to the United States to reinvent themselves.
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