North America, Central America

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood – In the train, even before St. John’s was passed, a touch of inevitable reaction had set in, and Rogers asked himself why he was going. For a sentimental j …

Travel with David Reynolds as he sets off to explore route US Route 50, one of the few remaining two-lane highways running right across the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Driving as …

Navigating the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans, Jonathan Raban opens himself to experience the river in all her turbulent and unpredictable old glory. Going wherever the current tak …

My Lady Ludlow Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell – My Lady Ludlow is a long novella (over 77, 000 words). It appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858, and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, …

Most people think of the American state of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that sits just west of New York City. But in the centre of the state lies a vast wilderness – larger than most …

Sapphira and the Slave Girl Willa Cather – Set on the Nebraska prairie where Willa Cather (18731947) grew up, this powerful early novel tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying fat …

How one man's mid-career crisis turned into an odyssey into the weirder side of American life. Like most of us, Geoff Steward was rocked by 2016's litany of horrors. Unlike most of us, Geof …

Jungle Tales of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs – Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in or …

The Lost Prince Frances Hodgson Burnett – This book is about Marco Loristan, his father, and his friend, a street urchin called ‘The Rat’. Marco’s father, Stefan, is a Samavian patriot working to ove …

Babbitt Sinclair Lewis – Babbitt is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy pro …