num_pages: 320
description: In a journey where Columbus comes at the end of time rather than the beginning, the Indian novelist I. Allan Sealy follows the spread of the earliest Americans after they crossed the land-bridge from Asia.Travelling down from the Artic Sea by whatever transport comes to hand, down roads more northerly than the Alaskan Highway, along Western blacktop, and across Mexico to the Yucatan, he meets the newest wave of North Americans - Latins in Tuktoyaktuk, Malaysians in Wyoming, a house called 'Saskatchewan' in upland Mexico - and those with an older claim.From the Eskimos to the Mayas, from the igloo to the pyramid, here is the luminous record of a journey by the other kind of Indian - the kind Columbus expected to find when he set sail in 1492.I. (Irwin) Allan Sealy was born in Allahabad, and has taught at universities in the USA, Australia and Canada. He is the author of The Trotter-Nama which won Best First Book (Eurasia) of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and Hero . He divides his time between India and New Zealand.
language: English
title: From Yukon to Yucatan: A western journey
titlecomplete: From Yukon to Yucatan: A western journey
genres: Travel
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Secker & Warburg