9780826222046-0826222048-O America: Discovery in a New Land

O America: Discovery in a New Land

ISBN-13: 9780826222046
ISBN-10: 0826222048
Edition: 1
Author: William Least Heat-Moon
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: University of Missouri
Format: Hardcover 350 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780826222046
ISBN-10: 0826222048
Edition: 1
Author: William Least Heat-Moon
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: University of Missouri
Format: Hardcover 350 pages

Summary

O America: Discovery in a New Land (ISBN-13: 9780826222046 and ISBN-10: 0826222048), written by authors William Least Heat-Moon, was published by University of Missouri in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent O America: Discovery in a New Land (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.57.

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As word of the discovery of gold in northern California spreads, an English physician, Nathaniel Trennant, accepts an offer to serve as doctor on a ship carrying immigrants to America. Alongside some two hundred emigres from northern Europe is a contingent of wealthy British people who call themselves not immigrants, but colonists. With this imported cultural divide, Nathaniel begins a long journey into what he terms the American experiment, one already under the stress of social injustices and economic inequities.

Trennant arrives in Baltimore and stumbles onto its slave market, where he witnesses the horrors of human bondage. One night in a boardinghouse he discovers under his bed a runaway slave. Disturbed and angered by the selling of human lives, he offers to help the young man escape, a criminal action that will put the slave and physician into flight from both the law and opportunistic slave hunters.

Traveling by foot, horse, stage, canal boat, and steamer, the two men gradually form a bond as they explore the backcountry and forge a deep friendship as they encounter the land and a host of memorable characters who reveal the nature of the American experiment.

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