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Publisher | : Back Roads |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0760369976 |
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Backroads of the Great American West describes and details with full-color photos and maps the most scenic routes in the Rocky Mountains, Texas, Desert Southwest, California, and Pacific Northwest.
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Publisher | : Voyageur Press (MN) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Automobile travel |
ISBN | : 9780896580589 |
Download Backroads of Southern California Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The perfect guide for day-trippers looking for unusual destinations, "Backroads of Southern California" also pays tribute to the area for those exploring these backroads from their armchairs. Covering nearly all of California's superlative natural locations, a local expert leads readers on 30 drives to the most scenic natural areas and sites that capture the region's colorful history. 140 photos, 120 in full color.
Author | : Gary Clark |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1616731877 |
Download Backroads of the Texas Hill Country Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Texas has hill country? Who knew? Well, the Lonely Planet guide to Texas, which calls the Hill Country “rightfully one of the state’s biggest tourist draws . . . an area of gently rolling hills and valleys freckled with cacti and cattle ranches, lined with rivers and dotted with peaceful, picturesque little towns.” And any self-respecting Texan might know as much. Forty miles west of Austin and fifty north of San Antonio, the Hill Country is within an easy drive of two of the state’s biggest cities, putting back-country quiet and beauty within reach of countless urban dwellers seeking respite. This book brings the remarkable Hill Country of Texas home to the back roads traveler. Whether it’s wildflowers you’re drawn to, or dude ranches, natural areas, historic sites, or quaint Texas towns redolent of history, this is your passport to an experience like no other. Backroads of the Texas Hill Country introduces travelers and armchair tourists alike to the emerging wine country of the Lone Star State, the meticulously preserved culture of East European immigrants, the “cowboy capital of the world” (Bandera), and the childhood home of LBJ at Johnson City. Follow this irresistible guide into the Hill Country, and find yourself deep in the heart of Texas.
Author | : David Skernick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2021-07-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780764361869 |
Download Back Roads of the Great Plains Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Experience the hidden byways of America's prairies, steppes, and grasslands through the unerring eye of landscape photographer and educator David Skernick. Covering Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, these unforgettable panoramic images place the viewer directly into our country's vast interior, containing wild bison, longhorn cattle, freight trains, abandoned homesteads, and agricultural patterns with startling geometries. The journey also passes through parts of the iconic Route 66 that most travelers never see. Skernick, who leads photography workshops nationwide, lets us in on his camera strategies, with an appendix listing exposure, equipment, and panorama statistics for each image--enough to satisfy even the most technology-minded photographer.
Author | : Kenneth W. Rendell |
Publisher | : Whitman Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Americana |
ISBN | : 9780794833596 |
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The American Dream is fundamentally about hope -- the hope that a better life awaits your initiative, your cleverness, your hard work. It's about making your own future. In The Great American West, we see the American Dream as it used to be: in ancient maps and colorful broadside posters, in letters sent home by lonesome gold miners, in newspaper clippings about famous outlaws, in drawings and photographs and diaries from the frontier. Immersed in this unique collection of Western artifacts, we can answer the question: "Is the American Dream still alive today?" -- book jacket.
Author | : Ruben Flores |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2014-06-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0812246209 |
Download Backroads Pragmatists Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Like the United States, Mexico is a country of profound cultural differences. In the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20), these differences became the subject of intense government attention as the Republic of Mexico developed ambitious social and educational policies designed to integrate its multitude of ethnic cultures into a national community of democratic citizens. To the north, Americans were beginning to confront their own legacy of racial injustice, embarking on the path that, three decades later, led to the destruction of Jim Crow. Backroads Pragmatists is the first book to show the transnational cross-fertilization between these two movements. In molding Mexico's ambitious social experiment, postrevolutionary reformers adopted pragmatism from John Dewey and cultural relativism from Franz Boas, which, in turn, profoundly shaped some of the critical intellectual figures in the Mexican American civil rights movement. The Americans Ruben Flores follows studied Mexico's integration theories and applied them to America's own problem, holding Mexico up as a model of cultural fusion. These American reformers made the American West their laboratory in endeavors that included educator George I. Sanchez's attempts to transform New Mexico's government agencies, the rural education campaigns that psychologist Loyd Tireman adapted from the Mexican ministry of education, and anthropologist Ralph L. Beals's use of applied Mexican anthropology in the U.S. federal courts to transform segregation policy in southern California. Through deep archival research and ambitious synthesis, Backroads Pragmatists illuminates how nation-building in postrevolutionary Mexico unmistakably influenced the civil rights movement and democratic politics in the United States. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University.
Author | : Jim Hinckley |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008-10-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1616731923 |
Download Route 66 Backroads Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Get off the beaten path and explore the hidden-gem destinations within a few hours of the Mother Road! Includes numerous photos and illustrations. Known as the Main Street of America and the Mother Road, US Route 66 is the nation’s best-known highway. This lavishly illustrated book steers you from Chicago to Los Angeles, traveling through the lowlands of the American Plains and the high plateaus of New Mexico and Arizona, from the Great Lakes to the mighty Pacific Ocean, and through major metropolises and remote country towns. Best of all, it lets you branch away from the Mother Road and encounter gems hidden beyond today’s standard motels and tourist traps—the quaint frontier communities that date back to the nation’s westward expansion; the legacy of ancient native cultures; and the awe-inspiring natural wonders that have graced these lands since time immemorial. State parks, wildlife refuges, museums, historic sites, literary landmarks, and much more are there to be explored within a few hours’ drive from the path of Route 66. The fifty trips included here offer new travel opportunities for the thousands of road-trippers who follow this legendary route, looking for something more. “The road and this book recall a time before franchise restaurants and chain motels choked America’s highways . . . the guide consists of 50 driving tours, which include plenty of side trips.” —Arizona Republic
Author | : Eric Blehm |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0061869996 |
Download The Last Season Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"As Jon Krakauer did with Into the Wild, Blehm turns a missing-man riddle into an insightful meditation on wilderness and the personal demons and angels that propel us into it alone.” — Outside magazine Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mountains as perilous as they are beautiful. Eric Blehm's masterful work is a gripping detective story interwoven with the riveting biography of a complicated, original, and wholly fascinating man.
Author | : James David Horan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
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The full western story, from the days of the conquistadores to the twentieth century.
Author | : Paul Theroux |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0544323521 |
Download Deep South Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The travel writer Paul Theroux turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways, Theroux visits gun shows and small-town churches, laborers in Arkansas, and parts of Mississippi where they still call the farm up the road 'the plantation.' He talks to mayors and social workers, writers and reverends, the working poor and farming families ... the unsung heroes of the south, the people who, despite it all, never left, and also those who returned home to rebuild a place they could never live without