O My America

 
After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as 'Terra Incognita' and 'The Magnetic North', Sara Wheeler rediscovered America 35 years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of 6 women who fled various sorts of trouble in 19th-century England and went to the United States to reinvent themselves.