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Comparing Notes With Lewis And Clark
Author: Leslie Allen
A present-day adventurer canoes the Upper Missouri to find that time and fortune have erased signs of its later history, restoring the wilderness the Corps of Discovery penetrated nearly 200 years ago
Reinventing A River
Author: Rosanne Haggerty
Its waters drove our first Industrial Revolution—and were poisoned by it. Thoreau believed the Merrimack might not run pure again for thousands of years, but today it is a welcoming pathway through a hundred-mile-long red-brick museum of America’s rise to power.
Empire Of The Winds
Author: Scott Banks
In the Aleutian Islands you can explore a landscape of violent beauty, discover the traces of an all-but-forgotten war, and (just possibly) catch a $100,000 fish
Where Berlin And America Meet
Author: Fredric Smoler
Our common history isn’t all pleasant, but seeing it firsthand is deeply moving