Download or read book Travels on the Road to America written by Kenneth C. Gardner Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Cockburn, the main character in the novel The Song Is Ended, is eight years older. He buys a 1970 Honda CB750, Candy Ruby Red, and sets off on a trip from North Dakota to New Orleans and back. He meets bikers, waitresses, gas station attendants, preachers, pimps, prostitutes and policemen, the common people of America, as well seeing some places significant in the cultural history of the United States. More importantly, he discovers a theme over one hundred and thirty years old that, if adopted, could enhance the moral fiber of American life.
Download or read book A History of Travel in America vol 4 written by Seymour Dunbar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 of 4. Being an Outline of the Development in Modes of Travel from Archaic Vehicles of Colonial Times to the Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad: the Influence of the Indians on the Free Movement and Territorial Unity of the White Race: the Part Played by Travel Methods in the Economic Conquest of the Continent: and those Related Human Experiences, Changing Social Conditions and Governmental Attitudes which Accompanied the Growth of a National Travel System.
Download or read book A History of Travel in America vol 1 written by Seymour Dunbar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of 4. Being an Outline of the Development in Modes of Travel from Archaic Vehicles of Colonial Times to the Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad: the Influence of the Indians on the Free Movement and Territorial Unity of the White Race: the Part Played by Travel Methods in the Economic Conquest of the Continent: and those Related Human Experiences, Changing Social Conditions and Governmental Attitudes which Accompanied the Growth of a National Travel System.
Download or read book Forecasting Travel in Urban America written by Konstantinos Chatzis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of urban travel demand modeling (UTDM) and its enormous influence on American life from the 1920s to the present. For better and worse, the automobile has been an integral part of the American way of life for decades. Its ascendance would have been far less spectacular, however, had engineers and planners not devised urban travel demand modeling (UTDM). This book tells the story of this irreplaceable engineering tool that has helped cities accommodate continuous rise in traffic from the 1950s on. Beginning with UTDM’s origins as a method to help plan new infrastructure, Konstantinos Chatzis follows its trajectory through new generations of models that helped make optimal use of existing capacity and examines related policy instruments, including the recent use of intelligent transportation systems. Chatzis investigates these models as evolving entities involving humans and nonhumans that were shaped through a specific production process. In surveying the various generations of UTDM, he delves into various means of production (from tabulating machines to software packages) and travel survey methods (from personal interviews to GPS tracking devices and smartphones) used to obtain critical information. He also looks at the individuals who have collectively built a distinct UTDM social world by displaying specialized knowledge, developing specific skills, and performing various tasks and functions, and by communicating, interacting, and even competing with one another. Original and refreshingly accessible, Forecasting Travel in Urban America offers the first detailed history behind the thinkers and processes that impact the lives of millions of city dwellers every day.
Download or read book 1995 American Travel Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SP026 Traveling America s loneliest road A geologic and natural history tour through Nevada along U S Highway 50 with GPS coordinates written by Kris Ann Pizarro and published by NV Bureau of Mines & Geology. This book was released on 2010 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best American Travel Writing 2016 written by Bill Bryson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection gathers the best travel essays from The New Yorker, Harpers, GQ and more—featuring Paul Theroux, Alice Gregory, Dave Eggers and others. Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, “I wasn’t at all sure I knew the answer,” these questions start us on the path of some fascinating explorations. While the various contributors to this collection travel for different reasons, they all come back with stories. Whether traversing the Arctic by dogsled, attending a surreal film festival in North Korea, or strolling the streets of a fast-changing Havana, some of today’s best travel writers share their experiences of the world and the human condition, offering, if not answers, than illumination and insight. The Best American Travel Writing 2016 includes Michael Chabon, William T. Vollmann, Helen Macdonald, Sara Corbett, Stephanie Pearson, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Pico Iyer, and others.
Download or read book Unauthorized Travel of Subversives Behind the Iron Curtain on U S Passports written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Misuse of Travel Funds by U S Foreign Affairs Agencies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best American Travel Writing 2015 written by Andrew McCarthy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the year's best travel writing.
Download or read book Catalog 1903 written by Indiana State Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction written by Aliki Varvogli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders. Varvogli draws on current theories of travel globalization and post-national studies, and proposes a dynamic model that will enable scholars to approach contemporary American fiction and assess recent changes and continuities. Concentrating on work by Philip Caputo, Dave Eggers, Norman Rush and Russell Banks, the book proposes that American literature’s engagement with Africa has shifted and needs to be approached using new methodologies. Novels by Amy Tan, Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Safran Foer and Dave Eggers are examined in the context of travel and globalization, and works by Chang-rae Lee, Ethan Canin, Dinaw Mengestu and Jhumpa Lahiri are used as examples of the changing face of the American immigrant novel, and the changing meaning of national belonging.
Download or read book To Promote the Foreign Policy of the U S by Fostering International Travel and the Exchange of Persons written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers legislation to establish U.S. Travel Commission.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia written by Geographical Society of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Travel and Tourism Administration Authorization written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Business, Trade, and Tourism and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unofficial U S Census written by Les Krantz and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all the juicy details and quirky facts about Americans that the official U.S. Census fails to report.
Download or read book Traveling America written by Eugene D. Redman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of games and puzzles related to u.S. history.