The Long Road South to the End of the Pan American Highway - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Road South to the End of the Pan American Highway write by Mel Ross. This book was released on 1968. The Long Road South to the End of the Pan American Highway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Longest Line on the Map
The Longest Line on the Map - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Longest Line on the Map write by Eric Rutkow. This book was released on 2019-01-08. The Longest Line on the Map available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world’s longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Pan-American Highway, monument to a century’s worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia. The highway’s history, however, has long remained a mystery, a story scattered among government archives, private papers, and fading memories. In contrast to the Panama Canal and its vast literature, the Pan-American Highway—the United States’ other great twentieth-century hemispheric infrastructure project—has become an orphan of the past, effectively erased from the story of the “American Century.” The Longest Line on the Map uncovers this incredible tale for the first time and weaves it into a tapestry that fascinates, informs, and delights. Rutkow’s narrative forces the reader to take seriously the question: Why couldn’t the Americas have become a single region that “is” and not two near irreconcilable halves that “are”? Whether you’re fascinated by the history of the Americas, or you’ve dreamed of driving around the globe, or you simply love world records and the stories behind them, The Longest Line on the Map is a riveting narrative, a lost epic of hemispheric scale.
The Drive
The Drive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Drive write by Teresa Bruce. This book was released on 2017-06-13. The Drive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Drive follows Teresa Bruce on her 2003 road trip through Mexico and onto the Pan American Highway, in a rickety camper with her old dog and new husband in tow. Bruce first set off on the exact same route in 1973, her parents at the helm and their two young daughters in tow, as a reaction to the accidental death of their youngest child, Bruce's brother John John. Her attempt to follow the route, using her mother's travel journal as an anecdotal guide, is as much about her need for exploration as it is about trying to understand her parents and their pain, and to finally begin to heal her own wounds over the accident. Bruce is immensely talented in bringing scenery of Central and South America to life -- countries from Mexico and Guatemala to Bolivia and Argentina are detailed with her innate attention to detail and sense of storytelling. The Drive details a really incredible journey through these beautiful, at times corrupt and war-torn countries, across roads that are as likely to be barricaded by guerrillas or washed out by floods as they are to be passable. The Drive is travel writing at its best, combining moments of deep heartbreak with unimaginable joy over a panoply of unforgettable settings.
Long Road South
Long Road South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Long Road South write by Joseph R. Yogerst. This book was released on 1999. Long Road South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pan-American Highway write by Benjamin Proudfit. This book was released on 2016-07-15. The Pan-American Highway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It might seem impossible to drive from Alaska to Argentinabut with a passport handy, thats a road trip people can take! The Pan-American Highway is a system of connected roads and highways that travel roughly north to south through North and South America. Readers learn about the many environments travelers would drive through on such a journey as well as the history of the highway. Full-color photographs illustrate the many cool destinations along the way as fun fact boxes suggest places to see along the route.
