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Borderlands: riding the edge of America
By Derek Lundy. 2010
Setting out on his motorcycle and considering the post-9/11 American passion with security, Lundy took a firsthand look at the…
US/Mexican and the US/Canadian borders. "The periphery of a place can tell us a great deal about its heartland; along the edge of a nation's territory, its real prejudices, fears and obsessions - but also its virtues - irrepressibly bubble up as its people confront the 'other' whom they admire, or fear, or hold in contempt, and know little about". Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2010.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. 1997.A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers (Penguin classics)
By Henry David Thoreau, H. Daniel Peck. 1998
Henry David Thoreau's account of a week he and his brother John spent on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers of…
New England in 1839. Written at Walden Pond (after John's death), it includes digressions on topics such as Native American history, friendship, literature, and sacred writings. 1998.A small town love story: Colonial Beach, Virginia
By Sherryl Woods. 2017
A Hoosier holiday
By Theodore Dreiser. 1997
An account of a trip in 1915, when author Theodore Dreiser and his friend, illustrator Franklin Booth, drove from New…
York City to their home state of Indiana. The adventure was heightened by the scarcity of roads, restaurants, and lodging along the way, prompting Dreiser to write one of the first road-trip books, complete with philosophical musings and travel advice. c1997.A country year: living the questions (Recorded Books evergreen)
By Sue Hubbell. 1989
Self-taught naturalist Sue Hubbell took refuge in the Missouri Ozarks and turned to commercial beekeeping to make a living. Her…
story is a true-life adventure so rare and sweet, so honest in the telling that any reader will find delight in her company, gladly sharing in her rediscovery of life at the core. 1989.1,000 places to see in the USA and Canada before you die
By Patricia Schultz. 2007
1,000 unforgettable places to visit in the US and Canada: pristine beaches and national parks, world-class museums and the Corn…
Palace, mountain resorts, salmon-rich rivers, scenic byways, Chez Panisse and the country's best taco, lush gardens and Holden Arboretum, mountain biking on the Maah Daah Hey trail, historic mansions, vineyards, hot springs, the Talladega Superspeedway, classic ballparks, and more. Includes more than 150 places of special interest to families, and, for every entry, the nuts and bolts of how and when to visit. 2007. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.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.Who's your city?: how the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life
By Richard L Florida. 2008
Florida posits that where you live affects every aspect of your life. Focuses on various types of communities - gay,…
straight, affluent, low-income, and others - and on the different life stages, such as single, married with children, and empty nester, of community residents. Discusses the "geography of happiness." 2008.Wanderer on my native shore
By George Reiger. 1983
Walking the line
By Marian Botsford Fraser. 1989
The author walked the Canadian-American border, visiting people on both sides in an effort to understand what it means to…
them. She discovered living memories, legends and stories present in family albums and graveyards. 1989.Walking up & down in the world: memories of a mountain rambler
By Smoke Blanchard. 1985
A professional mountain guide who began his climbing career as a teenager in the depression years relates his many exciting…
adventures in the mountains of California, Alaska, the Yukon, and Nepal. Blanchard offers advice on equipment and technique and discusses the people he has met. 1985.Walk to New York: a journey out of the wilds of Canada
By Charles Wilkins. 2004
In the spring of 2002, writer Charles Wilkins walked east from his home in Thunder Bay, Ontario to New York…
City. Wilkins met poets, hillbillies, even a baronial black African recently released from a torture prison, and visited wilderness mansions, mountain shacks, a Toronto cemetery, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Throughout, he muses on walking - its history, its culture, its decline, and perhaps most of all its ability to replenish the senses and reconstitute a world shrunken by cyberspace and jet travel. 2004.Voyage of the Stella
By R. D Lawrence. 1982
Travel easy: the practical guide for people over 50
By Rosalind Massow. 1985
Three's a crew
By Kathrene Pinkerton. 1940
"This is New York, honey!": a homage to Manhattan, with love and rage
By Michele Landsberg. 1989
Toronto writer Michele Landsberg moved to New York City when her husband, Stephen Lewis, became Canada's ambassador to the United…
Nations. Here she provides a portrait of New York, from secluded public gardens and bustling family neighbourhoods to political corruption, racism and poverty. 1990, c1989.