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Road Trips
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/TV12174. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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Travels with Charley
• John Steinbeck
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 214 PAGES
On the road in a van but with a poodle, John Steinbeck -- like Jack Kerouac, William Least-Heat Moon and Bill Bryson -- sets out to discover America. This short, wonderfully written account of his journey from Maine to California is a classic.
(USA32, $15.00) |
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Roughing It
• Mark Twain
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 592 PAGES
Twain's classic work on the American West, written as he was abandoning the peripatetic life and settling down in the 1870s. Funny, irreverent, acutely observed this is vintage Twain, covering his travels in California, Nevada and Hawaii. With all 304-first edition illustrations, specially prepared maps, facsimile manuscript pages and commentary.
(HWI14, $16.00) |
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The Oregon Trail, Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
• Francis Parkman
• David Levin
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1989 •
PAPER
• 504 PAGES
The original, 19th-century account by the great American historian and romantic, based in part on the author's wanderings on the Oregon Trail through the plains of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas.
(USW369, $16.00) |
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Rolling Nowhere, Riding the Rails With America's Hoboes
• Ted Conover
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 281 PAGES
Conover, bed-roll in hand, hopped a freight train in St. Louis to meet and mingle with modern-day hoboes.
(USA415, $15.00) |
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Lolita
• Vladimir Nabokov
LITERATURE •
1989 •
PAPER
• 317 PAGES
A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him.
(USA335, $15.00) |
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American Places
• William Zinsser
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Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, Niagara, The Alamo, Disneyland, Rockefeller Center, Pearl Harbor and Omaha Beach, William Zinsser writes of 16 iconic sites as a pilgrim and historian, rediscovering what it means to be American. The author of On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (now out in a 25th anniversary edition), Zinsser's essays are honed to perfection.
(USA167, $14.95)
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
• Tony Horwitz
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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What happened in America after Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue? In this latest outing, Tony Horwitz (Blue Latitudes) takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening adventure in Pre-Mayflower America. It's not so much Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth that interest him (though they are included too), it's the places associated with forgotten explorers, many of them Spanish, like Erik the Red (Vinland gets the first chapter), Henry Hudson, Verrazano, De Soto, Cabeza de Vaca, Cortes and Balboa. Horwitz rescues whole chapters of early America from the dustbin of history in this rich mix of wit, scholarship and modern-day adventure.
(NAM51, $19.00)
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America Day by Day
• Simone de Beauvoir
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Fresh off the boat as a 30-something celebrity in New York in 1947, de Beauvoir sets out on a four-month journey, taking in the people and sights from coast to coast and back again.
(USA432, $26.95)
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Black Like Me
• John Howard Griffin
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Griffen's audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history of the African American experience in the south in the 1950s.
(USS448, $14.00)
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Blue Highways, A Journey into America
• William Least Heat Moon
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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On the road with Ghost Dancing (his van), William Least Heat-Moon criss-crosses the country on its backroads, discovering some pretty wonderful personalities en route in this portrait of a multi-faceted eccentric America.
(USA31, $15.99)
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By Motor to the Golden Gate
• Emily Post
• Jane Lancaster
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Emily Post's hilarious account of a cross country journey with her son Edwin (Ned did the actual driving) and cousin Alice, originally published in 1916 in Collier's Weekly, captures the thrill of travel in the early days of the automobile. This edition by historian Jane Lancaster includes a biographical sketch of Miss Post, day-by-day mileage, hotels and expenditures, sketch maps, original photographs and other ephemera from the ferociously organized writer's trip.
(USA146, $39.95)
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Coast to Coast, A Journey Across 1950s America
• Jan Morris
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Morris's trip across the country takes us back to an America markedly different from the one we live in today, and back to a time Morris calls "the very apex of American happiness" in this new edition of her first book (written as James Morris).
(USA422, $17.95)
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Cross Country
• Robert Sullivan
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Sullivan's marvelously digressive chronicle of a cross-country car trip, the history of the Interstate system, fast-food, variety of to-go coffee cup lids, the marvels of the roadside attraction and many, many other subjects.
(USA135, $14.95)
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Driving Home, An American Journey
• Jonathan Raban
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Raban ranges widely in this collection of American essays, touching on the Pacific Northwest, where he has lived since 1990, his favorite pastimes (sailing, fishing, reading), the Mississippi, books and authors.
(USA452, $30.00)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
• Hunter S. Thompson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The classic of 1970s gonzo journalism and a dizzying chronicle of a duo's drug-induced misadventures and scrapes with the people of Las Vegas.
(USW254, $14.95)
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Horatio's Drive, America's First Road Trip
• Dayton Duncan
• Ken Burns
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The companion volume to the PBS film chronicles the nation's first road trip by Horatio Jackson, a 31-year-old Vermont doctor who drove his car from San Francisco to New York on mainly unpaved roads in 1903.
(USA439, $24.95)
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I See By My Outfit
• Peter S. Beagle
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Although better-known for his fantasy writing (The Last Unicorn), Beagle penned a winning travelogue about his journey across a changing America on a motor scooter in 1963. A classic, newly reprinted.
(USA174, $14.95)
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Long Way Home, On the Trail of Steinbeck's America
• Bill Barich
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Guided by whim, optimism and the spirit of Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, Barich journeys from New York in San Francisco along Route 50, weaving his experiences of small town America into a deft travelogue.
(USA436, $26.00)
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Miles from Nowhere
• Dayton Duncan
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Touring the American West from the Rio Grande to the Cascades in a GMC Suburban, covering more than 30,000 miles, Duncan paints a vivid, perceptive portrait of frontier life in contemporary America.
(USW675, $19.95)
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Roads to Quoz, An American Mosey
• William Least Heat-Moon
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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William Least Heat-Moon (Blue Highways) wanders to out-of-the-way and just plain odd places in this digressive, captivating account.
(USA329, $16.99)
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State by State
• Matt Weiland
• Sean Wilsey
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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With chapters by Rick Moody (Connecticut), Jhumpa Lahiri (Rhode Island) and Jonathan Franzen (New York), this inspired book, modeled after the WPA-era American Guides, pairs a writer with each of the 50 states. It's an irresistible tribute to the diversity of the country.
(USA325, $16.99)
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
• Tom Wolfe
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Wolfe's original tale of the Merry Pranksters, a classic of 1960s hippiedom.
(USS449, $16.00)
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The Great Northern Express, A Writer's Journey Home
• Howard Frank Mosher
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A deeply personal and funny account of best selling author Howard Frank Mosher's three-month road trip across 21st-century America in order to discover the true meaning of home.
(USA469, $25.00)
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The Lost Continent, Travels in Small Town America
• Bill Bryson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Heading out from his native Des Moines, Bryson makes his way through 38 of these United States, tossing off hilarious observations of the American character and roadscapes. Forgive Bryson's cheap shots at fat people and "hicks," he's an acerbic, witty guide to the country with an irrepressible sense of the absurd.
(USW180, $14.99)
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Twenty West: The Great Road Across America
• Mac Nelson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Neslon traces the route, history, and geography of Route 20, reflecting on the diverse history, landscape, geography, politics, culture, and other idiosyncratic people and places that he encountered during his journeys along Americaa's longest road, 3,300 miles from Boston, Massachusetts, to Newport, Oregon.
(USA360, $25.00)
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Way Off the Road, Discovering The Peculiar Charms of Small Town America
• Bill Geist
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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On-air correspondent for CBS Bill Geist offers his take on small town America from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Whalan, Minnesota in this collection of charming, quirky vignettes.
(USA353, $13.95)
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Robert Pirsig
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A landmark book concerning (among other things) philosophy -- and a father with his son on the road from Minnesota to California.
(GEN182, $14.99)
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On the Road
• Jack Kerouac
• LITERATURE
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The original, unedited, rougher, wilder and more provocative 50th anniversary edition of the famed Beat poet's landmark work.
(USA16, $17.00)
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The Bean Trees
• Barbara Kingsolver
• LITERATURE
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Spunky young Marietta Greer acquires a new name, an adopted Cherokee child and much more on an eventful road trip from Kentucky to Tucson in Kingsolver's irresistible debut novel.
(USS480, $16.99)
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The Grapes of Wrath
• John Steinbeck
• LITERATURE
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Steibeck's epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of the Joad family and their journey from Oklahoma to California in search of a new life, wonderfully detailed in it portrait of rural life in the 1930s and a classic novel of the road. John Ford made it into a movie.
(USW151, $16.00)
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