O MY AMERICA!: SECOND ACTS IN A NEW WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 00200013B63475
English Summary/英文概要： After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of six women who fled various sorts of trouble in nineteenth-century England and went to the United States to reinvent themselves.
Her travel companions include Fanny Trollope, mother of Anthony and author of the biting Domestic Manners of the Americans; the actress Fanny Kemble, who shocked the nation with her passionate first-hand indictment of slavery; the prolifically pamphleteering economist Harriet Martineau; the homesteader Rebecca Burlend, who had never been more than twelve miles from her Yorkshire village before she sailed to the New World; the traveller Isabella Bird, whose many ailments remained in check as long as she was scaling the Rockies; and the novelist Catherine Hubback, niece of Jane Austen, who deposited her husband in a madhouse and rode the brand-new rails to San Francisco.
Tough-minded outsiders, these women’s truest qualities emerged in a country as incomplete and tentative as their native land was staid and settled. And they discovered second acts for themselves at a time when the world expected them to disappear politely. From the swampy heat of Georgia’s Sea Islands to the icy purity of the Cascades, Sara Wheeler finds their path, and her own.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 继作者SARA WHEELER在《未知领域》和《地磁北极》这两本大获好评的书中研究美国历史以后， 为了再次挖掘美国的未知历史，35年之后她首次开启了周游美国之旅。虽然已到中年，但她仍然追寻着六位女性的脚步去发现未知的历史，因为她们的生活遭受了各种各样的困难，所以她们于19世纪逃离了英国，转而去美国开始新生活。
和她一起结伴旅游的人包括：Anthony的母亲同时也是《美国礼仪文化》一书的作者；因为控诉奴隶制而震惊全国的女演员Fanny Kemble；笔耕不缀的经济学家Harriet Martineau；农场主Rebecca Burlend，在她到达新大陆以前从未远离约克郡村庄；旅行者Isabella Bird，尽管她身患多种疾病，但是仍然坚持徒步旅行；以及小说家Catherine Hubback，她是简奥斯汀的侄女，她把她的丈夫送到精神病院去，乘着新造的火车到旧金山去。
他们是意志坚定的外来者，这些女性在一个国土面积并不完整的国家里展现了她们内在最真实的品质。当新大陆上的人们希望她们安静地消失的时候，她们开始了轰轰烈烈的西进运动。从美国佐治亚州海群岛的湿热气候到美国小镇上倾泻的瀑布，SARA WHEELER找到了属于自己的世界。(Susie)
Awards/获奖情况："One secret of first-person travel writing is the presence of the narrator as a good companion. It probably cannot be taught - a writer either is or is not sympathetic, amusing, insightful and informative. Sara Wheeler has had it from the off. You want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind." (Roger Hutchinson Scotsman)
"A true celebration." (Ruth Scurr Daily Telegraph)
"Bracing and ebullient... This is a fresh and unforgettable picture of the country we have been steadily falling out of love with; a second act indeed." (Frances Wilson Sunday Telegraph)
"Her latest work, published just ahead of International Women’s Day on Friday, is perfect for women who want to shake a fist at the fading light." (Ginny Dougary Guardian)
"A curious and teasing book... Wheeler is a writer of great composure and energy, and out of these American adventures she fashions something unexpected and compelling, and that is a portrait of a nation under construction." (Anthony Sattin Spectator)
About the Author/作者介绍： SARA WHEELER的书包括国际畅销书《未知领域》；《在南极旅行》，英国《每日电讯报》这样评论它：“我认为在描写南极景色的书中，这本书是最棒的。”她已经出版了两本旅行者的传记：《Cherry：Apsley Cherry-Garrard传记》以及《拥抱太阳：Denys Finch Hatton传记》。她在伦敦生活。Sara Wheeler’s books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, of which the Telegraph reviewer wrote, ’I do not think there will ever be a better book on the Antarctic.’ The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. Sara’s last book was Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2010. She has published two biographies of travellers: Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in O My America!. She lives in London.
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