At the age of fifty when most people have settled for the safety of routine R. K. Narayan left India for the first time to travel through America. In this account of his journey the writer's pen unerringly captures the clamour and energy of New York city the friendliness of the West Coast the wealth and insularity of the Mid-West the magnificence of the Grand Canyon...Threading their way through the narrative are a host of delightful characters-from celebrities like Greta Garbo Aldous Huxley Mar