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The Slow Road to Deadhorse: An Englishman's Discoveries and Reflections on the Backroads of North America
The Slow Road to Deadhorse An Englishman's Discoveries and Reflections on the Backroads of North America Author:James Anthony Burnt out after running his own business, James Anthony arrives in the pastel skies of Florida's Key West to start a journey of catharsis. His destination? Deadhorse, Alaska, on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, via the backroads of the continent. — Dodging burly wildlife keen to take a bite out of him, Anthony meets the quirky, good-hearted folk... more » of North America’s backwaters, learning how Britain influenced the continent’s history, much of it painfully unsavoury. Along the way, he gets serenaded in an African-American Church in Miami; goes peanut farming in Georgia; hitches a ferry ride across the Mississippi with moonshine-drinking locals; gets drunk with a North Dakotan farmer who has three months to live; survives a haunting in Saskatchewan; nearly gets squashed by an irate buffalo in the Northern Rockies; and arrives at the Arctic Ocean just before freeze-up.
Passionate, touching, hilarious, and insightful, The Slow Road to Deadhorse chronicles an Englishman’s road-trip through the North America most people never get to see. Come along for the ride.« less