American Journeys by Don Watson - ISBN: 9780143790990
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Explore America’s genius, contradictions, and landscapes on a powerful, insightful journey.

American Journeys

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    2 January 2018

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Summary

Award-winning. Bestselling.

A superb book about Don Watson’s journeys around America. Featured as one of Newsweek’s 50 ‘What to Read Now and Why’ titles.

Only in America – the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything – are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys acclaimed author Don Watson set out to explore the nation that has influenced him more than any other.

Travelling by rail gave Watson…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143790990
ISBN-10:0143790994
Author:Don Watson
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:2 January 2018
Weight:289g
Dimensions:195mm x 129mm x 25mm
About The Author

Don Watson

Don Watson’s Recollections of a Bleeding Heart- Paul Keating Prime Minister, won the Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award and the Australian Literary Studies Association’s Book of the Year. His Quarterly Essay, Rabbit Syndrome- Australia and America won the Alfred Deakin Essay Prize. Death Sentence, his best-selling book about the decay of public language won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year. Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words was also a bestseller. American Journeys won the Age Non-Fiction and Book of the Year Awards. It also won the inaugural Indie Award for Non-Fiction and the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction.

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