Cross Country: Fifteen Years and Ninety Thousand Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-In-Law, Two Kids and Enough Coffee to Kill an Elephant
About this title: Sullivan, who has driven cross-country more than two dozen times, recounts his family's annual summer migration from Oregon to New York, and of moving his family back and forth from coast to coast. In his trademark celebration of the mundane, he investigates everything from the history of the gas pump to the origins of fast food and rest stops.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781582345277ISBN:1582345279
Description: Good. Hardcover ex-library book with dust jacket in good condition. All usual stamps and markings. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. read more
Description: Very good. Light wear to edges and pages. Cover and spine show no easily noticeable damage. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: New York: Bloomsbury 2006 First U.S. Edition 1st printing 389 pages, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, hardcover in dust jacket CONDITION: VERY GOOD, one corner bumped & a little wrinkle at spine top o/w a nice copy, very good to near fine condition in fine dj NOTES-Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Subtitle-"Fifteen Years and Ninety Thousand Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-in ... read more
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Description: Sullivan, Robert., Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006, c2006, 1st U.S. Edition, 1st printing, boards (hard cover), fine with fine dj (as new), 389 pp with notes, tall 8vo, ISBN: 1582345279, 'With Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-in-law, Two Kids, and Enough Coffee to Kill an Elephant' read more
Binding: S Trade Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Date Published: 2007
Description: As New. New and unread, tight and unbroken spine, lovely cover, you'll be thrilled with this book! 100% satisfaction guaranteed! ! ! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 6/27/2006
ISBN-13:9781582345277ISBN:1582345279
Description: Like New. FIRST U.S. EDITION: SECOND PRINTING: ***NEW, With Remainder Mark*** Published by Bloomsbury Books; Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. D/J in Excellent condition. Casebound (Black boards, Gold lettering). Binding tight. FE pages Rough-cut. Pages crisp, clean and unmarked. Professionally and securely packaged, with Tracking Number. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2006-06-27
ISBN-13:9781582345277ISBN:1582345279
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardcover. Dust jacket included and in very good condition. Name on front end sheet. Very minor wear to page edges and corners. Binding tight. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury, New York
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781582345277ISBN:1582345279
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. FINE in very good jacket that shows two 3-inch closed tears at bottom of front panel, in a protective mylar sleeve. read more
"A fun travel book with the author recording the thoughts and digressions that run through his head as he pounds out the miles on the interstates. Not one to drive with the singleminded pursuit of distance travelled per day, the author and his family take many side excursions to investigate historical sites. They even pause one day long enough to play golf, although the teenage son seems to be the only one who actually played; the father, mother and sister moseyed around the course making their own observations. Many trips are covered in this one memoir, all seem ultimately interconnected."
"My Dad gave this book to me (and my sister) when we drove cross-country (from Providence to Santa Fe) in 2006. He had driven us cross-country as small children in the 50s, and thought this would be the perfect book for us to read while we travelled. I think we probably privately pooh-poohed the idea a bit, but travel can be tedious, and we did turn to the book, taking turns reading to each other as we took our respective stints behind the wheel. It turned out the book was a perfect traveling companion--we would read and then talk about it as we progressed across the country, and a couple of times there were serendipitous road encounters (like the time we discovered a piece of the pretty obscure Lincoln Highway, right after reading about it).
On the surface, the book is a story about the author's trip with his family from west to east over a five day period. But he uses this structure to weave in the history of the cross-country highway system, the history of the car on the road, stories of other people who drove cross-country, a discussion of road-side coffee cups and hand-dryers in restrooms, and all kinds of other topics! Very well-written, very interesting, and a great read-aloud book.
Thanks, Daddy, for knowing us so well! (When we got to Santa Fe, and my sister returned to the East Coast, I finished the book and then mailed it to her so she could finish. But we missed the intimacy of car-reading!)"
"After completing a road trip this past summer, I've become interested in books about road trips. I knew of this book before and was interested in reading it, but never went out of my way to find it until now. It's fairly good and is chock full of information regarding the interstate system, its history, the idea of travel in America, Lewis and Clark, the evolution of coffee cup tops, the evolution of gas stations, restaurants, and hotels, etc. I enjoyed following the author's route and especially liked how much the book references Saint Louis, demonstrating how important Saint Louis once was to the country: not only did Lewis and Clark set off from there, but there is reason to believe that the very first section of the Interstate System was started there. However, one drawback to the book is that the author uses a trip of his across the country, thereby taking the reader on as a passenger. The problem with this technique is that it demonstrates what eventually happens in a long trip: one becomes tired of traveling and grows impatient. And that's what happened to me while reading this book. Fortunately, it didn't happen until the last section, when the author's entries often consisted of him showing how tired he was of driving or just plain tired. Nonetheless, it was enjoyable and served as great reference material, providing numerous book suggestions regarding the highways."
"I wish the rest of this book had been as clever as the title. But the endless references to Lewis and Clark got on my nerves, guess this just wasn't the book for me."
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