sentences:  "Having arrived in Liverpool, I took a ship for the New World"
  
  For hundreds of years this sentence has tantalized and inspired Europeans.Jonathan Raban follows in the footsteps of Hector St John de Crevecouer - Mister Heartbreak and author of "Letters from an American Farmer" 1782)- and several million emigrants to discover America and the immigrant experience afresh.He sails from Liverpool docks to New York City and travels on to Alabama, Seattle, and the Florida Keys.