Dimensions
129 x 198 x 20mm
Longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award 2014
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.
In 2012 Gruff Rhys set off on an Investigative Concert Tour™ to retrace the footsteps of explorer and fellow Welshman John Evans. In 1792 Evans had travelled to America on a quest to find a legendary tribe of Welsh-speaking Native Americans. Two hundred years later, Gruff sought to illuminate Evans's curious fate, with a guitar in one hand and, in the other, a handmade felt avatar of this perhaps foolhardy near ancestor. American Interior is the story of these twin odysseys - of how wild fantasies interact with hard history and how myth-making can inspire humans to partake in crazy, vain pursuits of glory, including exploration, war and the creative arts.
