20 West : the great road across America / / Mac Nelson

• Autore: Nelson Malcolm A (Malcolm Antony)
• Pubblicazione: Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 pages)
• Disciplina: 973
• Soggetto topico: Travel / United States / General
• Soggetto geografico: United States Highway 20 Description and travel; United States Highway 20 History Anecdotes; United States Biography; United States Description and travel; United States History Anecdotes; United States History, Local; West (U.S.) Description and travel; West (U.S.) History Anecdotes; United States History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: The road and us -- The power of the word along the great road -- The great road to justice and freedom : God, man, and woman -- Power and empire on the great road : six presidents and a plutocrat -- Westering : prairies and plains, the big empty and the Sandhills -- Soldiers and Indians : the struggle for a continent -- The best idea : Yellowstone, the peaceable kingdom -- The great road to wilderness -- "Ocian in view! O! the joy!"
• Sommario/riassunto: Gold Medalist, 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Travel-Essay category"I know US 20, I live on it, grew up near it, commute to work on it, and have run on it most mornings for twenty-five years. It has become the Main Street of my life. I am fond of it, and want to tell its very American story." — from the IntroductionWhether he's on foot, in a car, or even in a canoe, Mac Nelson will delight readers with his rambling, westward depiction of America as seen from the shoulders of its longest road, US Route 20. As the "0" in its route number indicates, US 20 is a coast-to-coast road, crossing twelve states as it meanders 3,300 miles from Boston, Massachusetts, to Newport, Oregon. Nelson, an experienced "shunpiker," travels west along the Great Road, ruminating on history, literature, scenery, geology, politics, wilderness, the Great Plains, and national parks—whatever the most interesting aspects of a particular region seem to be. Beginning with the great writers and founders of religion in the East who lived and wrote on or near US 20, including Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, and Sylvia Plath, then crossing the plains to the forests, mountains, and deserts of the West, Nelson's journey on this beloved road is personal and idiosyncratic, serious and comic. More than a mile-by-mile guidebook, Twenty West offers a glimpse of a boyish and very American fascination with the road that will entice the traveler in all of us to take the long way home.
• Titolo autorizzato: 20 West
• ISBN: 0-7914-7825-4; 1-4356-5885-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811829303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II