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"""Coast to Coast"" presents an extraordinary journey via rail, steamboat, automobile and even horseback of a continent just beginning to discover itself. Travelling through the great cities, magnificent landscapes and highways of a bygone America, the book is illustrated with vintage photographs, posters, travel brochures and other ephemera. With five maps and nine colour inserts of facsimile menus, guidebooks and vintage postcards displaying everything from cog railways running up Mount Washington to ostrich farms outside Pasadena, this brilliantly researched book provides a tour of an America just beginning to flex its muscles as a world-class tourist attraction."

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Antony Shugaar is a well-known translator and an author. He is the recipient of a 2007 NEA fellowship for his translation of Sandokan. He has translated books by Primo Levi and other notable authors, and writes for the Boston Globe and Washington Post. He is the co-author of Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator. Marc Walter is a photographer and graphic designer whose most recent book is Empire Splendor. Catherine Donzel is writes on travel and lifestyle. Her most recent book is The Little Book of Tea.

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