united states

Records the author's travels on the back roads of America in the spring of 1978, detailing underestimated pleasures, simple lives, and the appreciation of a continuity with the past.

Story of what William Zinsser found on an 18-month journey to 15 of America's most cherished sites.

Chronicles America's troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories: the transformation of a once-racist Birmingham school system; a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination; the curious racial divide of the Madison Avenue ad world; and a Louisiana Catholic parish's forty-year effort to build an integrated church.

William Geist offers an amusing and expansive collection of essays exploring some of America's quirky, strange and offbeat towns and people.

Bryson, an Iowan transplanted to England, returns to search for the perfect American small town.

Sponsored by Children as the Peacemakers Foundation. The story of an American girl and a Russian girl traveling across the United States.

Presents an account of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's visit to America in the 1890s, and discusses how he took the essences of Indian drums, slave spirituals, and other musical forms to create a distinctly new music.

Larry McMurtry chronicles the experiences he had while traveling the roads of America and reminices about his boyhood memories that are related to travel.