Uneasy Rider: The Interstate Way of Knowledge - Hardcover

Bryan, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679416714 ISBN 13: 9780679416715

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

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The author of If at First offers an entertaining, insightful travelogue on life on America's interstate highways, detailing the people and places that he encounters as he heads west across Texas, through New Mexico and Arizona, to the City of Angels. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

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ngly curious open-mindedness . . . an amiable deadpan worthy of Richard Ford." --Pico Iyer, Time<br><br>in this offbeat and original road book, cultural observer Mike Bryan takes issue with the traditional idea that the "real" America is to be found somewhere on our scenic backroads. He argues instead that it is right out in the open on the interstates, and he travels the big highways of the Southwest to prove the point. <br><br>Bryan engages motel operators, state troopers, and traveling salesmen. He discovers the world's only "No Smoking" ranch; hobnobs with elusive novelist Cormac McCarthy; spars with Bob Sundown, who prefers his covered wagon to any car. Between encounters he contemplates everything from America's pioneering spirit to its history of road building. In the end, he discovers that the interstates, far from producing the homogenous society he feared, nourish a rich community of eccentrics. And that ultimately, as this deeply romantic trav

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679416714
• ISBN 13: 9780679416715
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 349
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