Twenty West: The Great Road Across AmericaState University of New York Press, 10 Μαρ 2010 - 354 σελίδες 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. |
Περιεχόμενα
1 the power of the word along the Great Road | 1 |
god man and woman | 27 |
six presidents and a plutocrat | 71 |
the big empty and the sandhills | 99 |
the struggle for a continent | 139 |
Yellowstone the peaceable kingdom | 167 |
7 the great road to wilderness | 219 |
8 ocian in view o the joy | 261 |
notes | 293 |
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Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
20 West: The Great Road Across America Malcolm Antony Nelson Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2008 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα xvi - I should not lay so much stress on this fact, if I did not believe that something like this is the prevailing tendency of my countrymen. I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west.