In September 1960, at age fifty-eight, the author and his poodle, Charley, and riding in a three-quarter ton pickup truck named Rocinante, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip through almost 40 states, meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Providing an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life, this is a self-portrait of a man who never wrote...

"On Location: A Film and TV Lover's Travel Guide is the essential resource for visiting the locations and history behind your favorite films or television series and favorite actors. In this guidebook, professional travel writer and self-proclaimed film and TV buff Lisa Iannucci takes you on a cinematic journey across the country. Enjoy over a hundred profiles on famous movie and television locations from John Wayne's westerns to Close Encounters...

About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads--those colored blue on maps--he uncovered a nation deep in character, story, and charm. Now, for the first time since...

More than 400 photographs illustrate the unique qualities and diversity of the 50 states. Informative and engaging details address history, culture and traditions, politics, myths and legends, trademarks, and essential experiences.

Pack up your Ouija board, wine bra, and squirt guns full of holy water ... we're going on a road trip! From the hit podcast And That's Why We Drink, this is your interactive travel guide to the hosts' favorite spooky and sinister sights. The world is a scary place ... and that's why we drink!

A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.

Bill Bryson, known in England as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the States and walks the Appalachian Trail, starting in Hanover, New Hampshire. This tour of America's most outrageous absurdities presents his comic musings of the quirkiest aspects of life in America, right down to hardware-store lingo, tax-return instructions, and vulnerability to home injury ... proving that there's truly no place like home, especially if it's in America....

"After a decade abroad, the National Book Award--and Pulitzer Prize--winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States-Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury"-- Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 after a decade away from the United States, first reporting from the Middle East before becoming the Beijing bureau chief at the Chicago Tribune and...