Publisher's Synopsis
'Paradise Blues' is an unconventional history of the United States of America, an unusual travel guide that follows and renders visible the country's paths of nature, history, and civilisation. Christof Mauch is a leading German historian who has spent many years in the US. Here he attempts, from a European perspective, to grasp the diversity of American culture and the transformation of its environments, combining travel reporting with nature writing, personal observation, and philosophical reflection.
