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The American scene

Paperback. Pub Date: 1995 Pages: 384 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd After living AOAD also for 20 years Henry James returned to his native America and traveled down the East Coast from Boston to Florida This a journal describing his feelings on the rediscovery of the New York of his childhood. and the growth of modern commercial America. He muses on Thoreau. Hawthorne and Emerson; in Washington. he finds a cityscape devoid of spiritual symbols; in Richmond. thoughts of the civil war haunt him. Published in 1907. this journal also served as a farewell address to the country James would never live in again.

Important places

Baltimore (390)
Boston (1,284)
Charleston (236)
Concord (85)
Newport (7)
New York (7,400)
Philadelphia (1,090)
Richmond (196)
Salem (127)
Washington (2,457)

Counties

Campbell (8)
Richmond (201)
New York (8,072)
Baltimore (440)
Charleston (255)
District of Columbia (2,673)
Suffolk (1,359)
Essex (214)
Philadelphia (1,109)
Middlesex (376)

Regions

Virginia (2,431)
District of Columbia (2,676)
Maryland (1,306)
Pennsylvania (4,458)
Massachusetts (3,085)
Florida (2,551)
South Carolina (671)
Kentucky (814)
Maine (1,075)
New York (9,763)

Countries

United States (64,950)

Other geographical areas

Sea Islands (USA) (46)
Piedmont (USA) (1,063)
Appalachian Mountains (1,111)
Central Lowlands (North America) (1,334)
Carolinas (2,142)
Gulf Coast (USA) (2,573)
Deep South (4,776)
New England (5,830)
North Atlantic Ocean (8,812)