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Author : Cindy Slovacek
Publisher : Prufrock Press Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781593631444
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Trek Across America written by Cindy Slovacek and published by Prufrock Press Inc.. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cindy Slovacek
Publisher : PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
ISBN 13 : 9781883055394
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Trek Across America written by Cindy Slovacek and published by PRUFROCK PRESS INC.. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Hallacher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781543921328
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Duke and I: a Backpacking Trek Across America written by Sarah Hallacher and published by . This book was released on with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lyell D. Jr. Henry
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609389808
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Trekking across America written by Lyell D. Jr. Henry and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2024-10-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several decades following the end of the Civil War, the most popular sport in the United States was walking. Professional pedestrians often covered 500 miles or more for up to six grueling days and nights in pursuit of large money prizes. Walking was also a favorite amateur sport; newspapers often noted a “pedestrian mania” or “walking fever” that only began to give way in the mid-1880s to fast-rising crazes for baseball, bicycling, and roller skating. As competitive walking faded, a new kind of spectacle walking, which had also begun in the late 1860s, came to full flower. Between 1890 and 1930, hundreds of men, women, even children and entire families were on the nation’s roads and railroad tracks trekking between widely separated points, sometimes moving in unusual ways such as on roller skates or by walking barefooted, backward, on stilts, or while rolling a hoop. To finance their attention-seeking journeys, many sold souvenir postcards. The public usually found these performers entertaining, but public officials and newspaper editors often denounced them as nuisances or frauds. Tapping vintage postcards and old newspaper articles, this is the first book to bring back to view this once-familiar feature of American life.
Author : Andrés Reséndez
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465068418
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (684 download)
Download or read book A Land So Strange written by Andrés Reséndez and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century In 1527, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: delayed by a hurricane and knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the three hundred men who had embarked, only four survived--three Spaniards and an African slave. This tiny band endured a horrific march through Florida, a harrowing raft passage across the Louisiana coast, and years of enslavement in the American Southwest. They journeyed for almost ten years in search of the Pacific Ocean that would guide them home, seeing lands, peoples, plants, and animals that no outsider had before. In this enthralling tale of four castaways wandering in an unknown land, Andrés Reséndez brings to life the vast, dynamic world of North America just a few years before European settlers would transform it forever.
Author : Peter Jenkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006095955X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book A Walk Across America written by Peter Jenkins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-09-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country. "I started out searching for myself and my country," Peter Jenkins writes, "and found both." In this timeless classic, Jenkins describes how disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove him out onto the road on a walk across America. His experiences remain as sharp and telling today as they were twenty-five years ago -- from the timeless secrets of life, learned from a mountain-dwelling hermit, to the stir he caused by staying with a black family in North Carolina, to his hours of intense labor in Southern mills. Many, many miles later, he learned lessons about his country and himself that resonate to this day -- and will inspire a new generation to get out, hit the road and explore.
Author : Doris Haddock
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 0375506756
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Granny D written by Doris Haddock and published by Villard. This book was released on 2001-06-12 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There's a cancer, and it's killing our democracy. A poor man has to sell his soul to get elected. I cry for this country." On February 29, 2000, ninety-year-old Doris “Granny D” Haddock completed her 3,200-mile, fourteen-month walk from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. She walked through 105-degree deserts and blinding blizzards, despite arthritis and emphysema. Along her way, her remarkable speeches — rich with wisdom, love, and political insight — transformed individuals and communities and jump-started a full-blown movement. She became a national heroine. On her journey, Haddock kept a diary — tracking the progress of her walk and recalling events in her life and the insights that have given her. Granny D celebrates an exuberant life of love, activism, and adventure — from writing one-woman feminist plays in the 1930s to stopping nuclear testing near an Eskimo fishing village in 1960 to Haddock’s current crusade. Threaded throughout is the spirit of her beloved hometown of Dublin/Peterborough, New Hampshire — Thornton Wilder’s inspirations for Grovers Croner in Out Town — a quintessentially American center of New England pluck, Yankee ingenuity and can-do attitude. Told in Doris Haddock’s distinct and unforgettable voice, Granny D will move, amuse, and inspire readers of all ages with its clarion message that one person can indeed make a difference.
Author : Linda Lawrence Hunt
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307425061
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Bold Spirit written by Linda Lawrence Hunt and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb. Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public imagination. But their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women's achievement was blanketed in silence until, nearly a century later, Linda Lawrence Hunt encountered their extraordinary story.
Author : Andrew Forsthoefel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632867001
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Walking to Listen written by Andrew Forsthoefel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of one young man’s coming of age on a journey across America--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the way. Life is fast, and I’ve found it’s easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I’m slowing down, way down, in order to give my full presence to the extraordinary that infuses each moment and resides in every one of us. At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen." He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn’t know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him, sometimes confiding their prejudices, too. Often he didn’t know how to respond. How to find unity in diversity? How to stay connected, even as fear works to tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions, and to the existential questions every human must face, and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself. Ultimately, it’s the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful, heartfelt book about how a life is made, and how our nation defines itself on the most human level.
Author : Jim Reisler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803290144
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Walk of Ages written by Jim Reisler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his seventieth birthday in 1909, a slim man with a shock of white hair, a walrus mustache, and a spring in his step faced west from Park Row in Manhattan and started walking. By the time Edward Payson Weston was finished, he was in San Francisco, having trekked 3,895 miles in 104 days. Weston’s first epic walk across America transcended sport. He was “everyman” in a stirring battle against the elements and exhaustion, tramping along at the pace of someone decades younger. Having long been America’s greatest pedestrian, he was attempting the most ambitious and physically taxing walk of his career. He walked most of the way alone when the car that he hired to follow him kept breaking down, and he often had to rest without adequate food or shelter. That Weston made it is one of the truly great but forgotten sports feats of all time. Thanks in large part to his daily dispatches of his travails—from blizzards to intense heat, rutted roads, bad shoes, and illness—Weston’s trek became a wonder of the ages and attracted international headlines to the sport called “pedestrianism.” Aided by long-buried archival information, colorful biographical details, and Weston’s diary entries, Walk of Ages is more than a book about a man going for a walk. It is an epic tale of beating the odds and a penetrating look at a vanished time in America.
Author : James Waller
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604730307
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Prejudice Across America written by James Waller and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of a teacher and his white students on a nationwide trek toward racial understanding In 1998 James Waller took twenty-one white college students from Washington state on a month-long journey. Prejudice Across America is the record of their interaction with the American Indian, Asian American, African American, Hispanic, and Jewish experiences nationwide. Few books have so directly and humanly captured the moment when whites confront the realities of those living as a minority in America. Waller reports here on this innovative and award-winning trek. In Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans, Birmingham, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C., his students hear both the official story of prejudice and the street story from people living and dealing with racism on a daily basis. Prejudice Across America is as much the journal of these travelers and what they face as it is a sweeping, up-close survey of the nation's racial landscape. The students walk the cheerless halls of a South Side housing project in Chicago, experience the agitated aftermath of the Olympic Games in Atlanta, and attend a briefing with President Clinton's Initiative on Race. All along the way, they hold wide-ranging group discussions and experience the unpredictable adventure of traveling by train, plane, and public transit. Drawing on student journals and on interviews with community leaders and activists throughout the country, Waller paints a compelling and provocative portrait of the nation's prejudice. In addition, Prejudice Across America includes analyses of the obstacles to reconciliation in each of the cities on the tour's itinerary. As they travel, students confront the thorny issues of race in America, face down stereotypical thoughts, prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviors, and uncover more tough questions than easy answers. As Waller and another group of students prepare for a similar trek in 2001, Prejudice Across America will allow readers to join them in introspection and self-discovery in the urban reality of an America where diversity isn't simply a buzzword, but a way of life.
Author : Andres Resendez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)
Download or read book A Desperate Trek Across America written by Andres Resendez and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranded near Tampa Bay in April 1528, without ships or hopes of resupply, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and 250 conquistadors, set off on an epic cross-country trek that would leave only four alive.
Author : Peter Jenkins
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780816134595
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book A Walk Across America written by Peter Jenkins and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading Jenkins' book is the next best thing to having actually walked along beside him." Associated Press With his own feelings echoing the disillusionment of his whole generation, Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to walk across America and find out what his country was really about. Along the way, Jenkins' faith and pride in his country -- and himself -- were tested and ultimately restored. Yours will be too as you read his amazing story.
Author : Levison Wood
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 0802165648
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Walking the Americas written by Levison Wood and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trek through Central America from the author of Walking the Himalayas, “just the kind of guy you want with you on an adventure” (The Washington Post). Beginning in the Yucatán—and moving south through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama—Wood’s journey takes him from sleepy barrios to glamorous cities to Mayan ruins lying unexcavated in the wilderness. Wood encounters indigenous tribes in Mexico, revolutionaries in a Nicaraguan refugee camp, fellow explorers, and migrants heading toward the United States. The relationships he forges along the way are at the heart of his travels—and the personal histories, cultures, and popular legends he discovers paint a riveting history of Mexico and Central America. While contending with the region’s natural obstacles like quicksand, flashfloods, and dangerous wildlife, he also partakes in family meals with local hosts, learns to build an emergency shelter, negotiates awkward run-ins with policemen, and witnesses the surreal beauty of Central America’s landscapes, from cascading waterfalls and sunny beaches to the spectacular ridgelines of the Honduran highlands. Finally, Wood attempts to cross one of the world’s most impenetrable borders: the Darién Gap route from Panama into South America, a notorious smuggling passage and the wildest jungle he has ever navigated. A Sunday Times bestseller and longlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Award for adventure travel, Walking the Americas is a thrilling personal tale, an accomplished piece of cultural reportage, and a breathtaking journey across some of the most diverse and unpredictable regions on earth. “A thrilling narrative trek . . . [Wood] elevates this already fascinating landscape with lively prose that combines travel journal with history lessons, memoir, and survivalist handbook.”—Booklist
Author : Constance Penley
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860916178
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (161 download)
Download or read book NASA/TREK written by Constance Penley and published by Verso. This book was released on 1997-06-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this investigation and celebration of America's fascination with space, Constance Penley, a professor of film studies and women's studies at the University of California, illustrates issues of sex and sexuality in the world of science and technology and examines the widely held prejudices against women in this area. 20 photos.
Author : Knud Rasmussen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Across Arctic America written by Knud Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of the Fifth Thule expedition.
Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395764831
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Across America on an Emigrant Train written by Jim Murphy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.
