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Portrait du Gulf Stream: éloge des courants : promenade
By Erik Orsenna. 2005
American vertigo
By Bernard Henri Lévy. 2006
Où va l'amérique ? Devant ce pays colossal et blessé, contradictoire et protéiforme, devant ce pays-concept dont les emblèmes, nobles…
ou infamants, tournent à n'en pas finir sur le manège médiatique mondial, chacun est pris de vertige. American Vertigo ? Un livre-enquête mobile et chaleureux. Un reportage conceptuel et un " road book " sensuel, cérébral, drôle, véridique. La perspicacité du philosophe. L'oeil et le style du romancier. 2006.Wild: a journey from lost to found
By Cheryl Strayed. 2015
At 26, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family disbanded and…
her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk 1,100 miles of the west coast of America - from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington State - and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise - a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet. 2015.Aimé Tschiffely had an unlikely dream: to ride 10,000 miles from Buenos Aires to New York City. On 23 April…
1925 this quiet, unassuming schoolteacher, with little equestrian experience, set out on his epic journey. His only companions were two native Argentine horses called Mancha and Gato. Together the trio traversed the Pampas, scaled the Andes and swam across the crocodile-infested rivers of Colombia. Along the way they were assailed by vampire bats, mistaken for gods and stalked by hostile revolutionaries. After two harrowing years, the man who had originally been labelled 'a lunatic' by the press was accorded a ticker-tape parade when he rode triumphantly through the streets of New York. 2014.The lost continent: travels in small-town America
By Bill Bryson. 2002
Bryson describes his cross-country journey to revisit what he deems the "magic places" of his youth, beginning with his hometown…
of Des Moines, Iowa, and including the Rocky Mountains. Reminisces about his childhood and his father as he recounts adventures across thirty-eight states and 13,978 miles. Some strong language. c1989, 2002.After a thirty-year career as high profile vet, columnist, presenter and author, Bruce Fogle - the UK's bestselling cat &…
dog writer - decided to leave urban Britain and take a journey with his dog Macy. Travelling in the footsteps of the great American novelist John Steinbeck, who published Travels with Charley - his standard poodle - in the '60s, Fogle set off in search of the North America of his childhood. 2006.A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
By Bill Bryson. 1997
Bryson relates the adventures and misadventures of two totally unfit hikers, as he and longtime friend Stephen Katz traverse the…
2,100-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Returning from more than twenty years in Britain, he set out to rediscover his homeland, but the two men find themselves awed by the terrain and stymied by the unfamiliar local culture. His gruelling yet fascinating trek gave him a rare perspective on American life. Some strong language. Bestseller.Notes from a big country
By Bill Bryson. 1998
After nearly two decades in England, Bill Bryson returned to the country of his birth. Gathered here are 18 months'…
worth of his "Mail on Sunday" columns about that strange phenomena, the American way of life, in which he brings his bemused wit to bear on one of the world's craziest countries.Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond
By Sandra B. Tooze. 2020
A dazzling, epic biography of Levon Helm––the beloved, legendary drummer and singer of the Band. He sang the anthems of…
a generation: "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek," and "Life Is a Carnival." Levon Helm's story––told here through sweeping research and interviews with close friends and fellow musicians––is the rollicking story of American popular music itself. In the Arkansas Delta, a young Levon witnessed "blues, country, and gospel hit in a head-on collision," as he put it. The result was rock 'n' roll. As a teenager, he joined the raucous Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, then helped merge a hard-driving electric sound with Bob Dylan's folk roots, and revolutionized American rock with the Band. Helm not only provided perfect "in the pocket" rhythm and unforgettable vocals, he was the Band's soul. Levon traces a rebellious life on the road, from being booed with Bob Dylan to the creative cauldron of Big Pink, the Woodstock Festival, world tours, The Last Waltz, and beyond with the man Dylan called "one of the last true great spirits of my or any other generation." Author Sandra B. Tooze digs deep into what Helm saw as a devastating betrayal by his closest friend, Band guitarist Robbie Robertson––and Levon's career collapse, his near bankruptcy, and the loss of his voice due to throat cancer in 1997. Yet Helm found success in an acting career that included roles in Coal Miner's Daughter and The Right Stuff. Regaining his singing voice, he made his last decade a triumph, opening his barn to the Midnight Rambles and earning three Grammys. Cancer finally claimed his life in 2012. Levon is a penetrating, skillfully told tale of a music legend from Southern cotton fields to global limelight.Unequal: a story of America
By Marc Favreau, Michael Eric Dyson. 2022
"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing…
the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality." -- Provided by publisher2022 book of world records
By Scholastic, Cynthia O'Brien. 2021
The tropic of cracker (Florida History and Culture Ser.)
By Al Burt. 1999
Iowa: off the beaten path (2010) (Off the beaten path series)
By Lori Erickson, Tracy Stuhr. 2010
Features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience [in Iowa] -- if only they knew about them.…
From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, "Iowa Off the Beaten Path" takes the reader down the road less traveled and reveals a side of Iowa that other guidebooks just don't offer. Ninth edition. 2010Grand Central Terminal: gateway to New York City
By Ed Stanley. 2003
Provides a history of Grand Central Terminal from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including its construction and architecture, the…
role played by Cornelius Vanderbilt, and facts about railroads in generalTelling stories specific to Columbia Plateau farmers and farmland, this journalist puts the lives and difficulties of individual farmers into…
national and global contexts. He interweaves family narratives, historical episodes and his own experience as a young harvest hand to illuminate the transformation of rural America from the 19th to 21st centuryThe Lincoln Memorial (Heinemann first library)
By Tristan Boyer Binns. 2001
Kamehameha III: Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha Schools Intermediate Reading Program Ser.)
By Jean Iwata Cachola. 1995
The U.S. Capitol (Symbols of freedom)
By Lola M. Schaefer. 2002
Where is the U.S. Capitol? What kind of money has a picture of the U.S. Capitol on it? How was…
the U.S. Capitol used during the Civil War? Find the answers to these questions and more when you read ?The U.S. Capitol?.The Washington Monument (Symbols of freedom)
By Lola M. Schaefer. 2002
How tall is the Washington Monument? What is inside the Washington Monument? What are the memorial stones? Find the answers…
to these questions and more when you read ?The Washington Monument?.More than petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina women (More Than Petticoats Ser.)
By Scotti Cohn. 2000
Presents detailed portraits of fourteen extraordinary women from North Carolina's history who transformed the lives of those around them. Discover…
Emeline Jamison Pigott, a Confederate spy; Mary Martin Sloop, a physician, community leader, and child welfare advocate in the hills of the Blue Ridge; Maggie Axe Wachacha, a healer, teacher, and Cherokee leader; Cornelia Phillips Spencer, who helped liberate the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and ten others who each directly addressed the challenges of their respective times and places. For senior high and adult readers