An exploration of the American heartland, relating the author's journey across the Great Plains to Chase County, Kansas, a sparsely populated area in the Flint Hills. The text attempts to capture the true but rapidly vanishing spirit of the people who farm America's central grasslands.

PrairyErth

William Least Heat-Moon

Travel

Picador

<p>Chronicles the author's eight-year research into the people, geology, legends, and history of a tiny cross-section of the Great Plains--Chase County, Kansas--to unearth some of the mysteries of nature</p>

History

Americas

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

River-Horse The Logbook of a Boat Across America

Travel Writing

Penguin??Books

Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

Biographies & Memoirs

Fawcett Crest Books

A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy""They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tiresome to write down, and they gave everything for anything that was given to them. I was attentive and labored to find out if there was any gold.""With these portentous words, Christopher Columbus described one of his first encounters with Native Americans on the island of Guanahani, which he had named San Salvador and claimed for Spain the day before. In Columbus in the Americas, bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reveals that Columbus's subsequent dealings with the cultures he encountered not only did considerable immediate harm, but also set the pattern of behavior for those who followed him.Based on the logbook of Columbus and numerous other firsthand accounts of his four voyages to the New World, this vividly detailed history also examines the strengths and weaknesses of Columbus as a navigator, explorer, and leader. It recounts dramatic events such as the destruction of Fortress Navidad, the very first European settlement in the New World; a pitched battle in northern Panama with the native Guaymi people; and an agonizing year Columbus and his men spent marooned on a narrow spit of land in southern Jamaica.Filled with stories of triumph and tragedy, courage and villainy, Columbus in the Americas offers a balanced yet unflinching portrait of the most famous and controversial explorer in history.TURNING POINTS features preeminent writers offering fresh, personal perspectives on the defining events of our time.

Columbus in the Americas (Turning Points)

John Wiley&Sons

The author chronicles his journey across America's waterways in his dory Nikawa (River Horse), encountering strange people, hostile cities, and hair-raising dangers.

River Horse: A Voyage Across America

United States

Simon & Schuster Audio

When the author lost his job in a college in Missouri, he set off across America in a half-ton Ford van. This book is his account of that journey - an exploration of the American landscape and the people who live in it.

Blue Highways : A Journey into America

Pimlico

The Red Couch: A Portrait of America

<p>The red couch is used as a prop in each portrait of American children, artists, musicians, actresses, disabled veterans, illegal aliens, politicians, farmers, scientists, and business people</p>

Arts & Photography

Kevin Clarke

Horst Wackerbarth

Photography & Video

Alfred Van Der Marck Editions

Columbus in the Americas

Turner Publishing

Blue Highways

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