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Heat Moon, William Least

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Summary: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HEA

Heat Moon, William Least.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 917.3 HEA

Heat Moon, William Least.

Summary: The author sets out from New York City to sail his boat across the United States.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 HEA

White, Mel

Summary: "This reference is the ultimate travel planner for all things national parks, scenic trails, seashores, historic areas, and more"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2022

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Summary: Justine Shapiro follows the Blue Ridge Parkway, journeying to Tennessee and the city of Nashville. She visits its famous country music sites and the old plantation home of US President, Andrew Jackson. Justine then hits the legendary Route 66, stopping at a giant cattle auction in Oklahoma City. She then joins the 'Trail of Tears' memorial walk for Native Americans before crossing the Texas...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 GLO

Vowell, Sarah

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.099 VOW

Long, McKenzie

Summary: "One woman's enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii This land is your land. When it comes to national monuments, the sentiment could hardly be more fraught. Gold Butte in Nevada, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks in New Mexico, Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine, Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LON

White, Mel

Summary: From New England to Alaska, this 544 page resource is filled with helpful advice, historical background, and practical facts on how to reach scores of park system properties, when to go, and what to do there.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 WHI

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 WHI

Summary: Filmmaker Joe Cross, recently obese and unhealthy, travels the United States promoting to all he encounters a lifestyle "reboot" centered around consuming only fruit and vegetable juices. Along the way he meets Phil Staples, a morbidly obese man to whom Cross offers his reboot cure.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: RebootYourLife 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FAT

Laskas, Jeanne Marie

Summary: "Character-driven stories about the people who make our lives run every day--and yet we barely think of them"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.5 LAS

Cotter, Tom

Summary: "Tom Cotter undertakes his most epic adventure in America's Greatest Road Trip. Launching from Key West, Florida, Cotter and photographer Michael Alan Ross pilot their Ford Bronco/Airstream camper combination nearly 9,000 miles to America's literal end of the road in Deadhorse, Alaska"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Motorbooks 2023

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Brownstone, Douglass L.

Summary: Provides practical advice on how to search for the locations of historic sites such as bridges, railroads, factories, inns, stores, and roads.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1984

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 BRO

Laskas, Jeanne Marie

Summary: Looks at the remarkable men and women whose low-profile accomplishments contribute to the running of the nation, from coal miners and oil rig workers to migrant laborers and air traffic controllers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.562 LAS

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1977

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 VIS

Guinn, Jeff

Summary: "A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GUI

Yogerst, Joseph R.

Summary: From a vineyard route through Northwest wine country to a winter wonderland on Alberta's Icefields Parkway, this informative travel guide offers epic sights, good bites, and pure fun. Pack your car and hit the road to experience 100 drives--both classic and off the beaten track--across the United States and Canada. You'll find innovative itineraries outlining your route, along with when to go...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 UNITED STATES YOG

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 YOG

Conaway, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shoemaker & Hoard 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.30492 CON

Davis, Wes

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Summary: "The epic road trips-and surprising friendship-of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3048 DAV

Hathaway, Margaret.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.3 Hathaway

Raban, Jonathan.

Summary: What does the "war on terror" and a new era of religious ferocity look like to an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest? Jonathan Raban finds that as he reads the source texts that have inspired modern-day jihad, memories of his own rigidly fundamentalist adolescent atheism help him understand why young people suffering from cultural alienation, spiritual emptiness, and moral uncertainty...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review of Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 RAB

Kaplan, Robert D.

Summary: "As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 KAP

Van Gelder, Sarah

Summary: "YES! magazine cofounder Sarah van Gelder was worried about the current state of American society. Environmental destruction, growing poverty, urban decay, rural decline - it's a long list. Can we turn this around, she wondered? Are there answers we haven't found yet? She confided her fears to a friend, who said to her, 'If the universe could deploy the one small person that is you, what would...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361 VAN

Summary: For three years, the Driftwood, a 60-foot motor yacht, and its modern-day band of explorers traveled along 25,000 miles of North American waterways rediscovering the sites and sounds of a continent that has fascinated and challenged adventurers for hundreds of years. Join the crew of sailors and young filmmakers in this 13-part series as they sample the substance, the spirit and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 ON

Brouws, Jeffrey T.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2003

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.92 BRO

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