With nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated into modern English. At the start of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented voyage of discovery. Their assignment was to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and record the geography, flora, fauna, and people they encount...
In the summer of 1937, Jonathan Daniels, the young, white, liberal-minded editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, took a ten-state driving tour to ""discover"" his native land. He thought the true South lay somewhere between Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and he set out to find it--ultimately interviewing even Mitchell herself. In Discovering the South historian Jennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour along wit...
AIA Guide to St Paul's Summit Avenue and Hill District
by Larry Millett
Earth-Friendly Inns and Environmental Travel Northeast
by Dennis Dahlin
An appreciation of the regional geography of North America, this revised text emphasizes the description and interpretation of North American landscapes, including their sequential development. It covers issues ranging from ecosystems and urban morphology to agriculture and inland waterways. The book also contains vignettes by various contributors entitled "A Closer look", offering multiple viewpoints on topics and a more detailed discussion of specific issues, such as land claims in Canada and...
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
by Benjamin Louis Eulalie De Bonneville
"Time Out" Miami and the Florida Keys
by Time Out Guides Ltd. and Andrew Humphreys
Its beaches grab headlines and win awards, and not without good reason: South Beach, In particular, is almost as beautiful as the buffed and tanned pretty things who frequent it. But that said, there's plenty more to Miami than just sun and sand, and Time Out Miami shows you where to find it. In the shops, cafes and botanlcas of Little Havana, for example; in the highfalutin boutiques of the Design District; or over on Key Biscayne, the northernmost island in the Florida Keys. Meanwhile, back on...
You Are Cordially Invited to the Best Choices Off Oregon's Interstate 5 (Best Choice)
by Myles Montgomery
Insight Guide Pacific Northwest (Insight Guide Pacific Northwest)
by Insight Guides