Author: Mac Nelson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791478254
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Gold Medalist, 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Travel-Essay category "I know US 20, I live on it, grew up near it, commute to work on it, and have run on it most mornings for twenty-five years. It has become the Main Street of my life. I am fond of it, and want to tell its very American story." — from the Introduction Whether he's on foot, in a car, or even in a canoe, Mac Nelson will delight readers with his rambling, westward depiction of America as seen from the shoulders of its longest road, US Route 20. As the "0" in its route number indicates, US 20 is a coast-to-coast road, crossing twelve states as it meanders 3,300 miles from Boston, Massachusetts, to Newport, Oregon. Nelson, an experienced "shunpiker," travels west along the Great Road, ruminating on history, literature, scenery, geology, politics, wilderness, the Great Plains, and national parks—whatever the most interesting aspects of a particular region seem to be. Beginning with the great writers and founders of religion in the East who lived and wrote on or near US 20, including Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, and Sylvia Plath, then crossing the plains to the forests, mountains, and deserts of the West, Nelson's journey on this beloved road is personal and idiosyncratic, serious and comic. More than a mile-by-mile guidebook, Twenty West offers a glimpse of a boyish and very American fascination with the road that will entice the traveler in all of us to take the long way home.
Twenty West
Author: Mac Nelson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791478254
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Gold Medalist, 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Travel-Essay category "I know US 20, I live on it, grew up near it, commute to work on it, and have run on it most mornings for twenty-five years. It has become the Main Street of my life. I am fond of it, and want to tell its very American story." — from the Introduction Whether he's on foot, in a car, or even in a canoe, Mac Nelson will delight readers with his rambling, westward depiction of America as seen from the shoulders of its longest road, US Route 20. As the "0" in its route number indicates, US 20 is a coast-to-coast road, crossing twelve states as it meanders 3,300 miles from Boston, Massachusetts, to Newport, Oregon. Nelson, an experienced "shunpiker," travels west along the Great Road, ruminating on history, literature, scenery, geology, politics, wilderness, the Great Plains, and national parks—whatever the most interesting aspects of a particular region seem to be. Beginning with the great writers and founders of religion in the East who lived and wrote on or near US 20, including Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, and Sylvia Plath, then crossing the plains to the forests, mountains, and deserts of the West, Nelson's journey on this beloved road is personal and idiosyncratic, serious and comic. More than a mile-by-mile guidebook, Twenty West offers a glimpse of a boyish and very American fascination with the road that will entice the traveler in all of us to take the long way home.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791478254
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Gold Medalist, 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Travel-Essay category "I know US 20, I live on it, grew up near it, commute to work on it, and have run on it most mornings for twenty-five years. It has become the Main Street of my life. I am fond of it, and want to tell its very American story." — from the Introduction Whether he's on foot, in a car, or even in a canoe, Mac Nelson will delight readers with his rambling, westward depiction of America as seen from the shoulders of its longest road, US Route 20. As the "0" in its route number indicates, US 20 is a coast-to-coast road, crossing twelve states as it meanders 3,300 miles from Boston, Massachusetts, to Newport, Oregon. Nelson, an experienced "shunpiker," travels west along the Great Road, ruminating on history, literature, scenery, geology, politics, wilderness, the Great Plains, and national parks—whatever the most interesting aspects of a particular region seem to be. Beginning with the great writers and founders of religion in the East who lived and wrote on or near US 20, including Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, and Sylvia Plath, then crossing the plains to the forests, mountains, and deserts of the West, Nelson's journey on this beloved road is personal and idiosyncratic, serious and comic. More than a mile-by-mile guidebook, Twenty West offers a glimpse of a boyish and very American fascination with the road that will entice the traveler in all of us to take the long way home.
Bravo 20
Author: Richard Misrach
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801840643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Shows public lands illegally used to test bombs
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801840643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Shows public lands illegally used to test bombs
20 West
Author: Steve Ford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916222502
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Spanning six decades, from propeller-driven transport aircraft to composite, fly-by-wire and wide-body double-decker aircraft plucked from the pages of science fiction, 20 West charts the emotion, the physical experience, the joy and the anguish of flying. It is not a blow-by-blow account of the aviation industry. Nor is it merely one person's story of their career in aviation. Rather, it is a collection of snapshots - some humorous, some heart-breaking - of the people and the aircraft that shaped a lifelong passion for flight. 'Flying is a way of life that wraps itself around you and enters every pore as you fall within its envelope.'
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916222502
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Spanning six decades, from propeller-driven transport aircraft to composite, fly-by-wire and wide-body double-decker aircraft plucked from the pages of science fiction, 20 West charts the emotion, the physical experience, the joy and the anguish of flying. It is not a blow-by-blow account of the aviation industry. Nor is it merely one person's story of their career in aviation. Rather, it is a collection of snapshots - some humorous, some heart-breaking - of the people and the aircraft that shaped a lifelong passion for flight. 'Flying is a way of life that wraps itself around you and enters every pore as you fall within its envelope.'
Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year Ended
Author: United States. General Land Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office
Author: United States. General Land Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of General Land Office Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ...
Author: United States. General Land Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Characteristics of Water-quality Data for Lake Houston, Selected Tributary Inflows to Lake Houston, and the Trinity River Near Lake Houston (a Potential Source of Interbasin Transfer), August 1983-September 1990
Author: Fred Liscum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Observations at the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, at the Girard College, Philadelphia
Author: Girard College. Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geomagnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geomagnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description