Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street - Couverture souple

Antonson, Rick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1459704363 ISBN 13 : 9781459704367

Editeur : Dundurn Group Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Route 66 Still Kicks is an exhilarating, heartbreaking drive down a forgotten road through unknown America. Author Rick Antonson and his travel nemesis, the inscrutable Peter, patiently journey 2,400 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles through eight states seeking - and finding - all the old parts that remain of Route 66. This travelogue blends surprising vignettes with obscure stories about Route 66-related personalities, among them Al Capone, the Harvey Girls, Salvador Dalí, Mickey Mantle, 1930s photojournalist Dorothea Lange, Cyrus Avery (the Father of Route 66), and songster Bobby Troup "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66." Antonson's fresh perspective on the route's harsh history, its ebb and flow of popularity and viability along with America's economic and social upheavals underpaints a canvas of stories about the road's rise to fame, its segmenting by superhighways, and its fall from grace with the gazetteers - and Route 66's entrenchment in legend.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rick Antonson is the president and CEO of Tourism Vancouver and a former ambassador for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. He is the co-author of "Slumach's Gold" and the author of "To Timbuktu for a Haircut." Antonson lives in Vancouver.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dundurn Group Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1459704363
• ISBN 13: 9781459704367
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 338
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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