Cross Country - 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-Law, Two Kids, and Enough Coffee to Kill an Elephant
by Sullivan, Robert
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1582345279
- ISBN 13
- 9781582345277
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About This Item
New York: Bloomsbury, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition, First printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 388 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The author, who has driven cross-country in America more than two dozen times, recounts his family's annual ummmer migration from Oregon to New York. His tales are replete with all the minor disasters, humor, and wonderful coincidences that characterize life on the road. As he drives, he ponders his nation-crossing predecessors, such as Lewis and Clark, Carl Fisher, Jack Kerouac, and Emily Post, to name a few..
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-388).
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- Cross Country - 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-Law, Two Kids, and Enough Coffee to Kill an Elephant
- Author
- Sullivan, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 1582345279
- ISBN 13
- 9781582345277
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- AMERICAN ROAD TRIPS, CROSS-COUNTRY TRAVEL NARRATIVE, ROBERT SULLIVAN, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel;
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