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  • The Slow Road to Deadhorse

  • An Englishman's Discoveries and Reflections on the Backroads of North America
  • By: James Anthony
  • Narrated by: James Anthony
  • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)
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By: James Anthony
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Summary

An offbeat, poignant and life-affirming American road-trip from 'the English Bill Bryson.' Award-winning author James Anthony's 'modern times travel masterpiece' invokes Kerouac and Steinbeck as he uncovers the people, places and history of North America with his wry British perspective.

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 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.

©2021 James Anthony (P)2021 James Anthony

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Informative & inspiring

I really enjoyed listening to this book telling the story of an epic road trip. It was informative, nicely written and at times very witty. My wife & I are approaching retirement and we are planning a 3-month road trip in North America to celebrate. We’re confident travellers, but having listened to James , we’ll push ourselves a little further out of our comfort zone…pretty impressive travelling the American & Canadian wilderness alone.
Thanks James for a great listen

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Wonderful story and beautiful narration.

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