American interior
Subtitle: the quixotic journey of John Evans, his search for a lost tribe and how, fuelled by fantasy and (possibly) booze, he accidentally annexed a third of North America; or, Footnotes : a fantastical, musical quest in search of the remains of Don Juan Evans
By: Gruff Rhys
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780241146019
Subjects: Welsh; Travel; Rock musicians; Description and travel; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Footnotes :; Quixotic journey of John Evans, his search for a lost tribe and how, fuelled by fantasy and (possibly) booze, he accidentally annexed a third of North America.
Description: A psychedelic historical travelogue from Welsh pop legend Gruff Rhys. In 1792, John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to America to discover whether there was indeed, as widely believed, a tribe of Welsh-speaking native Americans still walking the great plains. In 2012, Gruff Rhys set out on an investigative concert tour in the footsteps of John Evans, with concerts in New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St Louis, North Dakota and more. This book is the story of these journeys.