Travels in Darkest America

By Maurice Keeler

Young Maurice Keeler dreamed of coming to America as a boy in wartime England where American GI's had candy in their pockets and the movies showed a life of glamour and cowboys and Indians. his dreams came true a few years later, when he flew to America to take a promised job--one dream that didn't turn out so well. He persevered, traveling the country, meeting people from all walks of life, from former presidents to young summer workers in a national park. Maurice also describes his early life as a naval student, an apprentice, and a junior engineer on British ships that roamed the world. The title, Travels in Darkest America , is a play on an 1891 Travel-and-adventure story, In Darkest America , by Henry Morton Stanley, the intrepid journalist who encountered Dr. David Livingstone and uttered the classic phrase "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" The phrase "travels in darkest America" was jokingly said by two English girls who were traveling with Keeler, and it became the headline in a story that was written about the three young girls English travelers in a Missouri newspaper.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1499379056
• ISBN13: 9781499379051
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"