United States - Description and travel
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Route 66 Adventure Handbook: Full-Throttle Sixth Edition
$24.95 Add to cartRoute 66 Adventure Handbook is your personal guide to the vanishing American roadside, with all of its exuberance, splendor, and absurdity.
For this updated and expanded sixth edition, Drew Knowles ha
- Series: Route 66 Adventure Handbook
- Author: Knowles, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 1595801219
- Language: English
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Letters from an American Farmer
$14.95 Add to cartWritten by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: “What, then, is the American, this new man?”, as a new nation took shape b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crèvecoeur, J Hector St John de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554749
- Language: English
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Roadshow Anthropology
$39.95 Read moreThis collection of engaging black-and-white photographs captures America from the driver’s seat. Offering fresh perspectives on the United States’ iconic highways, byways, back roads, and small-town m… [more below]
- Author: Chester, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1625347405
- Language: English
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RV Vacations: Explore National Parks, Iconic Attractions, and 40 Memorable Destinations
$21.99 Read moreExplore America from your RV
What could be better than hitting the road in an RV and seeing the best of what the United States has to offer with your family? Packed with 40 exciting trips you can enjo- Series: Outdoor Adventure Guide
- Author: Puglisi, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0744076188
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America Independent…and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly Wrong
$32.00 Read moreIn the ride-along tradition of Sarah Vowell, Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson, this insightful history revisits the pivotal figures and key turning points of the American Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary- Author: Thompson, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1455565156
- Language: English
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You Are Here: United States
$33.27 Read moreWelcome to the United States! Discover the landmarks that make the United States well known around the world–natural wonders, such as Old Faithful and the Grand Canyon, monuments, such as the Statue … [more below]
- Series: Exploring World Landmarks
- Author: Gleason, Carrie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1039815421
- Language: English
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Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets, and Gatemouth’s Gator: Essays
$14.99 Add to cartWhether he’s fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloo
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0060755504
- Language: English
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Heidi Across America: One Woman’s Journey on a Bicycle Through the Heartland
$17.95 Add to cartA memoir of homecoming – Heidi Across America is a gritty story of how opening our hearts to others enables us to open our hearts to ourselves and love what we find there.
In the summer of 2010, Heidi- Author: Beierle, Heidi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0757324975
- Language: English
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John Muir: The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books
$40.00 Add to cart* Muir is perhaps the nation’s greatest conservationist
The name John Muir (1838-1914) has come to stan
* His books reveal why he devoted his life to preserving the West’s greatest natural treasures- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1032
- Publish Date: September 30 1992
- ISBN10: 089886335X
- Language: English
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America and Americans: And Selected Nonfiction
$19.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation’s most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437417
- Language: English
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America
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night–“a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity”–Baudrillard mixes aper us and observations with a wicked sense of fu… [more below]
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 20 2010
- ISBN10: 184467682X
- Language: English
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I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
$19.00 Add to cartA classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English- Series: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2000
- ISBN10: 076790382X
- Language: English
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Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond
$17.99 Add to cart“Johnson writes with a fervor that can only be described as religious. Seek is scary and beautiful and ecstatic and uncontrolled…he elevates the mundane to the sublime; he boils things down to their
- Author: Johnson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0060930470
- Language: English
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A Walk Across America
$18.99 Read moreTwenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey — a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his
- Author: Jenkins, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 18 2001
- ISBN10: 006095955X
- Language: English
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Piecing Together America
$35.99 Add to cartThe foam cheesehead in Milwaukee, the cigar in Tampa Bay, the crab mallet in Baltimore, the songwriting in Austin, and the poetry in Washington D.C., are all part of America’s iconic crafts. America’s
- Author: Seddiqui, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: May 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1735534641
- Language: English
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A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond
$31.95 Add to cartJoin author John Banks on a captivating journey through America’s rich history as he explores famous battlefields, historic homes, and forts across the country.
Over more than a year, John Banks crissc… [more below]
- Author: Banks, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1734627670
- Language: English
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Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America’s Two-Lane Highways
$29.99 Add to cartCriss-cross the country on America’s two-lane highways with the ultimate guide to the classic road trip. InsideRoad Trip USA you’ll find:
- 11 routes through the heart of America, color-coded and exten
- Series: Road Trip USA
- Author: Jensen, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798886470185
- Language: English
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Assassination Vacation
$19.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, t… [more below]
- Author: Vowell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 074326004X
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet USA
$29.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Catch a Broadway show in New York, marvel at the Grand Cany
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Ping, Trisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1216
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1788684184
- Language: English
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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
$16.95 Add to cartWith a New Preface by the Author
Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its p- Author: Savoy, Lauret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1619028255
- Language: English
