Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways by Larry McMurtry

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Roads
A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways
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Larry McMurtry

Roads (2000)
A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways
A non fiction book by Larry McMurtry

Book DescriptionThoughout that afternoon and the next morning the realisation slowly grew on me that I had accidentally found something I hadnt really expected to find: the dream road, the good-as-it-gets road, the ideal path into the heart of the great steppe. US 2 had everything  the widest vistas, the greatest skies, and more history than any one traveller could hope to exhaust: Lewis and Clark, the Missouri, the mountain men, the Cheyenne, the Sioux, Sitting Bull, the Yellowstone  From Duluth, Minnesota to New Orleans, from LA to Alberquerque, from Washington DC to Dallas, from Boston to the Florida Keys, Larry McMurtry rides the long highways that criss-cross the North American continent. Like mighty rivers, they cut a path through the wilderness and carry people and goods for thousands of miles. Larry, a child and chronicler of the West and its wild past, is more at home travelling the Great Plains or the Montana wilderness or Louisianas Atchafalaya swamp than he is traversing the more manicured lands of the eastern seaboard. As one would expect, his approach to travel writing is entirely subjective and personal. His voice is intimate and the reader becomes his companion and confidant. He envies Newby and longs for a Wanda to accompany him, but in a way the reader is his Wanda. He is discursive and anecdotal, and is unmasked as a competitor to Alistair Cooke as he holds forth most entertainingly on other writers (hes amazingly well read), history, what people did, said, thought, wore in no particular order. If he can stray from the point, he will, and the result is rich, nostalgic, cultural, beguiling and a must for any romantic soul who has ever longed to travel those wide open spaces where the buffalo roam under an endless sky.

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April 2001 : Hardback

Title: Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways (Windsor Selection)
Author(s): Larry McMurtry
ISBN: 0-7540-1533-5 / 978-0-7540-1533-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
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July 2000 : Hardback

Title: Roads
Author(s): Larry McMurtry
ISBN: 0-7528-3810-5 / 978-0-7528-3810-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: Orion Publishing
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Paperback Editions

2001 : Paperback

Title: Roads (A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways)
Author(s): Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Phoenix
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2001 : Paperback

Title: Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways
Author(s): LARRY MCMURTRY
ISBN: 0-7538-1412-9 / 978-0-7538-1412-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: PHOENIX
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August 2000 : Paperback

Title: Roads
Author(s): Larry McMurtry
ISBN: 0-7528-4105-X / 978-0-7528-4105-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Orion
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May 2010 : Kindle edition

Title: Roads
Author(s): Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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