Rediscover the Open Road Road Trip USA: Appalachian Trail shows you how to make the most of over 2, 000 miles of two-lane highways, from the north woods of Maine, through Pennsylvania Dutch Country, & all the way to the heart of Dixie. With mile-by-mile highlights & detailed driving maps all in a handy, portable format. Along the way, you`ll find: Gettysburg, Dinosaur L&, & the Great Smoky Mountains Roadside curiosities & amusements, stopovers & detours, & the local history & personalities that make each town & city unique.
Includes: full-colour modern & vintage photos & illustrations.
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Rediscover the Open Road Road Trip USA: Atlantic Coast shows you how to make the most of almost 2, 000 miles of two-lane highways, from the bright lights of the Big Apple, through the Carolina low-country, & all the way to Florida`s free-wheeling Key West. With mile-by-mile highlights & detailed driving maps all in a handy, portable format. Along the way, you`ll find: Coastal kitsch along the Jersey Shore, the Wright Brothers` Kitty Hawk, & the fabled Fountain of Youth Roadside curiosities & amusements, stopovers & detours, & the local history & personalities that make each town & city unique.
Includes: full-colour modern & vintage photos & illustrations.
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Rediscover the Open Road Road Trip USA: Great River Road shows you how to make the most of the route following the mighty Mississippi River, from its Minnesota headwaters all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. With mile-by-mile highlights & detailed driving maps all in a handy, portable format. Along the way, you`ll find: Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox, Elvis Presley`s Gracel&, & Cajun Country Roadside curiosities & amusements, stopovers & detours, & the local history & personalities that make each town & city unique.
Includes: full-colour modern & vintage photos & illustrations.
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With a focus on vernacular roadside architecture built between 1920 & the late 1960s, Road Trip is a time capsule of an extraordinary era & its roadside buildings, restaurants, gas stations, motels, & places of amusement, most of which are now long since gone. ...

In ” Roadie
- The Misunderstood World of a Bike Racer”, veteran race announcer & long-time cycling enthusiast Jamie Smith sets
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From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast`s Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying & intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe`s doorstep. Chasing the money from kidnapped Nigerian hair braiders to ISIS gunrunners, this is the story of modern slavery in Europe & how the plight of those most in need is being wilfully disregarded. Caught between Camorra arms dealers & Nigerian drug gangs along Italy`s attractive coast, each year thousands of refugees & migrants are lured into their murky underworld. In this powerful expose, investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau follows the weapons trail, meets the sex-trafficked women trapped by black magic, the nuns who try to save them & the Italian police who turn a blind eye as the most urgent issues facing Europe play out in broad daylight. ...

Major features of the landscape, roads & tracks are often ignored by those who use them. Yet they can tell us much about a locality & the social & economic life of the past. The earliest trade routes date back far into pre-history, long before the Romans imposed their military network. This book provides penetrating new insight into our network of ancient, old & new roads & tracks.M189 ” There is so much detail that a short review cannot do it justice. If there is a road outside your door, you should buy this book” Local History Magazine ...

Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written & updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification. Nooteboom`s writings on politics, people, architecture & culture are as digressive as they are eloquent; his innate curiosity takes him through the landscapes of Heine & Goethe, steeped in Romanticism & mythology, & to Germany`s baroque cities. With an outsider`s objectivity he has crafted an intimate portrait of the country to its present day. ...

Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written & updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification. Nooteboom`s writings on politics, people, architecture & culture are as digressive as they are eloquent; his innate curiosity takes him through the landscapes of Heine & Goethe, steeped in Romanticism & mythology, & to Germany`s baroque cities. With an outsider`s objectivity he has crafted an intimate portrait of the country to its present day. ...

Roads to Santiago by Cees Nooteboom is a multi-faceted pilgrimage through ten centuries of Spanish history, politics, art, literature, architecture, climate & people. Nooteboom unlocks doors to a hidden Spain, embarking on detours & encountering riddles, presenting the lands & history of the country with all the weight of a passion accumulated over forty years of intimate acquaintance. Derived from studies & sketches made between 1979 & 1992, this is collection of 25 thought-provoking & sincere essays covering ten centuries of Spain`s history, culminating in Santiago de Compostela, the end destination of the world’s most celebrated pilgrimage. Nooteboom’s writes up his thoughts on historical events & topics such as the effects of the barren plains on the Spanish soul & presents his ruminations on the history of conquest & loss which the country has undergone. He succeeds in conveying a sense that, though time has progressed, Spain & its people, attitudes & customs have in many ways stayed still & timeless. ...