Author: C. K. ShepherdPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Across America By Motor-Cycle by C.K. Shepherd (Illustrated) [1922]
Across America by Motor-cycle
Author: C. K. ShepherdPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Across America By Motor-Cycle by C.K. Shepherd (Illustrated) [1922]
Double Crossing
Author: Eve TalPublisher: Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN: 1933693150
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In 1905, as life becomes increasingly difficult for Jews in Ukraine, eleven-year-old Raizel and her father flee to America in hopes of earning money to bring the rest of the family there, but her father's health and Orthodox faith become barriers.
Greetings from the Lincoln Highway
Author: Brian ButkoPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493041681
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Lincoln Highway was the first continuous road to connect the coasts, allowing newly motorized Americans to cross the country by car. This book allows readers to travel across 100 years of the highway, from New York City to San Francisco, with stops at historic landmarks, bridges, taverns, movie palaces, diners, gas stations, ice cream stands, tourist cabins, and roadside attractions. Color maps and stories of the highway take readers through 14 states, with excerpts from memoirs and old postcards giving a feel for what early motoring was like--the good, the bad, and the muddy. The book is organized by state, with narrative information on what the original Lincoln Highway crossed through. There are historical tidbits and nostalgic details, along with information on what remains. This book is a useful treasure for travel planning and armchair reading.
Autos Across America
Author: Carey S. BlissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Motorcycle Illustrated
Author: Are We There Yet?
Author: Susan Sessions RughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
An entertaining cultural history of the American family vacation during the height of its popularity from 1945 to 1973. Reveals the ways in which the ritual of the family road trip, for most middle-class Americans became a way of defining what it meant to be (and become) American.
American Road
Author: Pete DaviesPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805072976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Davies recounts these treacherous travels in a brisk and readable style . . . he has put history, sociology, politics, and human nature into well-tuned balance. The Boston Globe
Global West, American Frontier
Author: David M. WrobelPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826353711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.
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