American Interior : the quixotic journey of John Evans , his search for a lost tribe and how, fuelled by fantasy and (possibly) booze, he accidentally annexed a third of North America ; or Footnotes: a fantastical, musical quest in search of the remains of Don Juan Evans


Gruff Rhys
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Biografisk
Utgitt
London : Penguin , cop. 2014
Omfang
306 s.
Opplysninger
In 1792, John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to America to discover whether there was indeed, as widely believed, a tribe of Welsh-speaking native Americans still walking the great plains. In 2012, Gruff Rhys set out on an 'investigative concert tour' in the footsteps of John Evans, with concerts in New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St Louis, North Dakota and more. American Interior is the story of these journeys. It is also an exploration of how wild fantasies interact with hard history and how myth-making can inspire humans to partake in crazy, vain pursuits of glory, including exploration, war and the creative arts.
Emner
Sjanger
Geografisk emneord
USA . - Wales
Dewey
ISBN
9780241965368(h.) : 250 kr

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