Discover America!

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To know America, one ought to stand at least qnce in grass running from elbow to horizon," advises William Least Heat-Moon in Discover America! You'll find his America and much more in this volume. From Maine's rocky coast to palm-fringed Hawaiian coves, from Kentucky horse farms to New York skyscrapers, spectacular photographs present familiar favorites. Distinguished writers bring you the spirit, the delights, and the foibles of our country. Listen in the Deep South "to the symphony of the cicadas," with Willie Morris, "barefooted on the porches on summer nights." Hark back to a Kiowa childhood in Oklahoma with N. Scott Momaday. With all the excellence you expect from the National Geographic Society, Discover America! takes you on a nostalgic journey across our land.
Autumn in Strafford, Vermont. Nathan Benn
From Maine's rocky headlands to the palm-fringed beaches of Hawaii, the United States is blessed with beauty. Discover America! captures this scenic heritage in a... Tovább

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To know America, one ought to stand at least qnce in grass running from elbow to horizon," advises William Least Heat-Moon in Discover America! You'll find his America and much more in this volume. From Maine's rocky coast to palm-fringed Hawaiian coves, from Kentucky horse farms to New York skyscrapers, spectacular photographs present familiar favorites. Distinguished writers bring you the spirit, the delights, and the foibles of our country. Listen in the Deep South "to the symphony of the cicadas," with Willie Morris, "barefooted on the porches on summer nights." Hark back to a Kiowa childhood in Oklahoma with N. Scott Momaday. With all the excellence you expect from the National Geographic Society, Discover America! takes you on a nostalgic journey across our land.
Autumn in Strafford, Vermont. Nathan Benn
From Maine's rocky headlands to the palm-fringed beaches of Hawaii, the United States is blessed with beauty. Discover America! captures this scenic heritage in a region-by-region ramble through the fifty states.
The camera focuses on places well known and long loved, such as the Grand Canyon and Chesapeake Bay. Other images reveal landscapes that surprise and intrigue, from the Heartland's grassy sweep to the lofty peaks of the Mountain West, from the timeless serenity of a New England lake to the volcanic power that shaped the Southwest and daily tests the Pacific West.
To begin this odyssey, Michael Parfit presents a bird's-eye view of travelers, both modern and historical, who have journeyed across America. The nine essays that follow—personal and impressionistic—evoke the distinctive flavor of each region of the country.
Donald Hall's New England is the old-fashioned part north of Boston, which remains frail but alive in the countryside, "pasture with intact stone walls growing magnificently into forest, and population still sparse, independent, and eccentric." Among the mid-Atlantic's chain of vast urban concentrations, Jake Page reveals the quiet places—the green bogs and pink orchids of the Pine Barrens, Amish farms hardly changed since colonial days, hollows hidden within the Appalachians.
Though the Upper South has lost much of its Southernness, reports James J. Kilpatrick, the gentle spirit of hospitality survives, and most of the region is still small towns and somnolent counties where nothing much happens publicly. Willie Morris maps the landscapes of the Deep South, a powerful, rebellious land of fast-moving cars and slow-moving rivers, little children on dusty porches, and the lingering scent of mimosa and bougainvillea.
In the Great Lakes states John Madson finds "a kingdom by a freshwater sea, richer than all the Indies with its timber, coal, oil, iron, copper, water, and fat soils for feeding the people who put the riches to use." William Least Heat-Moon sketches vignettes of the Heartland's
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