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.