After the Gold Rush: A Bicycle Journey Through American History by John Stuart Clark
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Overview: In 1849, several hundred thousand Americans and Europeans began streaming across ‘The Great American Desert’ bound for the gold fields of California. Their dream was to strike it rich, but if the Gold Rush epitomizes the American Dream, their trek through the wilderness became the worst of nightmares. 150 years later, British cycling journalist John Stuart Clark retraces the same roads, rivers and trails taken by the Forty Niners, struggling across 3,000 miles of inhospitable terrain, battling violent sandstorms and withering heat. Cycling where no sane person would choose to cycle, at a time when the fiercest tornado and worst school massacre on record shake the nation, Clark tells the stories of those he encounters with an uncommon sensitivity and understanding. Part travelogue, part social history, all incredibly well written, this is the timeless story of a nation taking stock of itself and the American Dream.
Genre: Non-Fiction, History
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