Introducing a beautiful photo-rich hardback for the traveller who can't get enough of the United States. Experience USA's highlights include how to safely find and photograph bears in Yellowstone, cruising down California's famous Pacific Coast Highway, insight and advice on the country's best music festivals, working out in Los Angeles's open-air Muscle Beach gym, the lowdown on Texas barbeque and Kentucky bourbon.

The differing contents of this book reflect the variety in the overall span of master observer McPhee's work. Irons in the Fire concerns catlle rustling in contemporary Nevada. The Gravel Page is about forensic geology--a science used to help solve major crimes and puzzles on an even greater scale. Rinard at Manheim is an experimental story about an auction of exotic cars. Items as unlikely as a virgin forest in central New Jersey and a mountain of...

Buster Baxter travels the country with his airline pilot father, recording his adventures on a video camera for his friends back in Elwood City. Featured here are all 40 episodes from the first season such as: Meet Me at the Fair; Among the Hmong; Buster and Beatrice; A Sense of Direction; The Giant Pumpkins; Up the River; Buster's Buffalo Roundup; and many more. Also included are episodes from Busytown Mysteries; The New Adventures of Nanoboy; Mona...

"In this celebration of what ties America together, My Beautiful America pairs the lyrics of Katharine Lee Bates' "America the Beautiful" with fun, modern illustrations to make a must-have for little patriots! A fuzzy touch-and-feel finger trail weaves throughout the illustrations of soldiers, farmers, and cities to remind children and grownups of the thread that ties us all together. A stunning, heartfelt presentation for all patriotic families-from...

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush's America in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons in an evangelical church in Texas, riding the streets of Baghdad in an American convoy to nowhere, searching for phantom fighter jets in Congress, and falling into the rabbit hole of the 9/11 Truth Movement.--From publisher description.

"Biking from Oregon to Maine is no small feat, especially for two newly retired women who carry everything they need for three months, powered only by the strength of their legs and a desire for adventure. Alice Honeywell and Bobbi Montgomery invite readers to follow their ride by bicycle across the United States, as they face scorching sun, driving rain, buffeting winds, equipment failures, killer hills, wildfires, and even a plague of grasshoppers....

"As a boy, Robert Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities...

A collection of odd facts, including festivals, contests, and laws,about the states of the United States.

"In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on. Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of...

Having been given a five-year clean bill of health, Elizabeth McGowan sets out to bicycle all 4,000 miles from America's coast to coast. She wants to help other melanoma victims, and use her many miles to raise funds for cancer research. She also wants to better understand her late father, who died of melanoma at the age of 44, when Elizabeth was just fifteen. Her long, nearly 90-day cycling trip across the U.S. continent not only showcases people...