United States Travel

For more than 15 years, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture. In these two dozen pieces, collected here for the first time, Sides gives us a fresh, alluring, and at times startling America brimming with fascinating subcultures and bizarre characters who could live nowhere else. Following Sides, we crash the redwood retreat of a cabal of powerful military-industrialists, and more.

America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. Travel writer Porter Fox spent two years exploring its length by canoe, freighter, and car - and in Northland, he delivers the little-known history of the region and a riveting account of his travels. Fox follows explorer Samuel de Champlain's adventures; recounts the rise and fall of the iron, wheat, and timber industries; crosses the Great Lakes on a freighter; and tracks America's fur traders through the Boundary Waters.

USA National Parks: Lands of Wonder is a celebration of these magnificent parks - packed with inspiring ideas for your next adventure, whether you want to be alone amid the vast and haunting wilderness of Alaska's Denali Park or get up close to the teeming tropical wildlife of Florida's Everglades. All 62 national parks are covered, showcasing what makes each one unique, with maps, facts and figures, things to do, and when and where to experience it at its best.

Drugi tom amerykanskiego tryptyku podrózniczego pt.: "W slady Kolumba". Autor wraz z zona pedza po Stanach Zjednoczonych autem - czarnym, czterodrzwiowym De Soto - z którym to Wankowicz, niczym prawdziwy obywatel USA, jest zlaczony niemal organicznie - nazywa go swoim przyjacielem, a rozlaka z maszyna równa sie wrecz amputacji fizycznej. Sam autor tak pisal o cyklu: "Trzy ksiazki, które wydaje, powstaly z ciaglej wlóczegi. Zamiast osla mialem rozklekotane auto, a zamiast jalmuzny - honoraria za odczyty w ogromnym zasiegu ladów Ameryki i Kanady."

Pierwszy tom amerykanskiego tryptyku podrózniczego Melchiora Wankowicza pt. "W slady Kolumba". Autor opisuje dziesieciomiesieczna podróz po amerykanskich drogach i bezdrozach, która odbyl wraz z zona.

Though the Pony Express has enjoyed a lot of traction over the years, among the authors that have attempted to encapsulate it, none have ever ridden it themselves. While most scholars would look for answers inside a library, Will Grant looks for his between the ears of a horse. Inspired by the likes of Mark Twain, Sir Richard Burton, and Horace Greeley, all of whom traveled throughout the developing West, Will Grant returned to his roots: he would ride the trail himself with his two horses, Chicken Fry and Badger, from one end to the other.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Gilbert. Greater Than a Tourist - Gilbert Arizona USA by author Jennifer Adam offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit the safest city in Arizona. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist.

As the title suggests, The Giant Book of Awesome Facts, contains a huge list of obscure and awesome facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people. The Giant Book of Awesome Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to hear. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: the U.S. National Archive saves all of the presidents' doodles.

Make story time a little spookier with the number one best-selling chapter book series of all time! Every visit to the magic tree house leads to a time-travel adventure! Jack and Annie are on a mission to find - and inspire - a musician that brings happiness to millions of people. After traveling to New Orleans, Jack and Annie come head to head with some real ghosts, and discover the world of jazz when they meet a young Louis Armstrong.

New York will charm you with its rich history, magnificent sites, and diverse cultural heritage. It has everything you can possibly imagine for a holiday filled with fun. With all its complexity and density, New York is a city that promises adventure. High quality tourist facilities, gastronomic delights, stupendous views, and hospitality are the main reasons why New York is one of the most popular destinations in the world.

"W pepku Ameryki" to trzeci tom (po wczesniejszych "Atlantyk-Pacyfik" oraz "Królik i oceany") amerykanskiego tryptyku podrózniczego Melchiora Wankowicza pt. "W slady Kolumba", o którym sam pisal: "Trzy ksiazki, które wydaje, powstaly z ciaglej wlóczegi. Zamiast osla mialem rozklekotane auto, a zamiast jalmuzny - honoraria za odczyty w ogromnym zasiegu ladów Ameryki i Kanady". Jest to obraz Stanów Zjednoczonych lat 60.

¿Le gustaría viajar con gracia y elegancia por países anglo parlantes consiguiendo lo que necesita cuando lo necesita? Este libro es la solución para sus problemas de comunicación cuando viaje por países de habla inglesa. Usted puede acceder a la frase que necesita mediante el acceso directo que provee la Tabla de Contenidos que lo lleva a cualquiera de los siguientes temas que requiere un viajero.

Seduced by the government’s offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of the twentieth century. Raban’s stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteader’s dream strips away the myth—while preserving the romance—that has shrouded our understanding of our own heartland.

Here is the best guide to these mountains, replete with tales of the early Indians who roamed the forests, the first explorers, and the ceaseless wars among the French and British, then the American colonists, for control of the land. But the book is primarily a guide to enjoying the mountains today.

It is late August 1892, and Sophia Tims is coming home from a foreign Age, having risked her life in search of her missing parents. Now she is aboard a ship, with a hard-earned, cryptic map that may help her find them at long last. But her homecoming is anything but peaceful. Threatening clouds hang over the New Orleans harbor. Sinkholes have been opening in Boston, swallowing parts of the city whole. Rogue weirwinds tear up the Baldlands.

Not too many guns came out. I wasn’t told to get the hell off my property but for once or twice...the driver suddenly wheeled her substantial upper torso around to face me and with all seriousness said, “I'd knock you over for that har.” The mountains are majestic, their colors an infinite blur of enchanting hues that changes as the sun crosses the sky and the earth rounds the sun.

Biking from Oregon to Maine is no small feat, especially for two newly retired women who carry everything they need for three months, powered only by the strength of their legs and a desire for adventure. Alice Honeywell and Bobbi Montgomery invite listeners to follow their ride by bicycle across the United States, as they face scorching sun, driving rain, buffeting winds, equipment failures, killer hills, wild fires, and even a plague of grasshoppers.

Great businesses don't always have great starts. In the summer of 2010, Green Beret Jason McCarthy was going through a divorce, separating from the military, and struggling with money issues. He used his new company, GORUCK, as an excuse to drive to all lower 48 states with his dog, Java, to meet people and get into adventures, while searching for how to rebuild in America.

Travel Like a Local: Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States by Christian Galvan offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit The Springs.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit the United States' Virgin Islands. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.