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Product Description: In 1933, Clarence Jonk, full of youthful na√øveté and an urge for adventure, decided to build a houseboat from scrap materials and float it the length of the Mississippi River. In the tradition of Huckleberry Finn and Henry David Thoreau, Jonk recounts a first-person tale of high adventure complete with wry and lyrical observations on life, love, and nature that capture the beauty and harshness of existence along the Mississippi River...read more
Paperback:
9780873514354 | Borealis Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In 1933, Clarence Jonk, full of youthful na√øveté and an urge for adventure, decided to build a houseboat from scrap materials and float it the length of the Mississippi River.
Product Description: " Fifty Houses is a kind of dream book, not just in the otherworldly atmosphere that Sorlien summons up through her apparitional effects with infrared film or through the total exclusion of the humans who dwell within these houses, but also in the way certain of the pictures reach beyond to strike some chord of archetypal resonance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780801870620 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: " Fifty Houses is a kind of dream book, not just in the otherworldly atmosphere that Sorlien summons up through her apparitional effects with infrared film or through the total exclusion of the humans who dwell within these houses, but also in the way certain of the pictures reach beyond to strike some chord of archetypal resonance.
The author of PrairieEarth and Blue Highways revisits the controversy surrounding the arrival of Columbus in the New World, offering a fresh perspective on this pivotal historical event. 75,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.
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Hardcover:
9780471211891 | Turner Pub Co, September 17, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Revisits the controversy surrounding the arrival of Columbus in the New World, offering a new perspective on this pivotal historical event.
The acclaimed author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth chronicles his journey across America's waterways in his dory Nikawa (River Horse), encountering strange people, hostile cities, and hair-raising dangers. Reprint.
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Paperback:
9780140298604 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author chronicles his journey across America's waterways in his dory Nikawa (River Horse), encountering strange people, hostile cities, and hair-raising dangers.
Hardcover:
9780783889849 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 2000), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: The author chronicles his journey across America's waterways in his dory Nikawa (River Horse), encountering strange people, hostile cities, and hair-raising dangers.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780736649551 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, January 1, 2001), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The author chronicles his journey across America's waterways in his dory Nikawa (River Horse), encountering strange people, hostile cities, and hair-raising dangers.
Prebinding:
9780613366335 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $25.80 | About this edition: The author chronicles his journey across America's waterways in his dory Nikawa (River Horse), encountering strange people, hostile cities, and hair-raising dangers.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780671047030 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, November 1, 1999), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author chronicles his journey across America's waterways in his dory Nikawa (River Horse), encountering strange people, hostile cities, and hair-raising dangers.
The acclaimed author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth chronicles his journey across America's waterways in his dory Nikawa (River Horse), encountering strange people, hostile cities, and hair-raising dangers. Tour.
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Hardcover:
9780395636268 | Houghton Mifflin, October 15, 1999, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The author chronicles his journey across America's waterways in his dory Nikawa (River Horse), encountering strange people, hostile cities, and hair-raising dangers
The companion volume to the PBS film follows the epic odyssey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean, documenting the varied spectrum of landscapes, people and cultures, and wildlife that they encountered. Reprint. TV tie-in. 35,000 first printing.
Paperback:
9780375706523 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The companion volume to the PBS film follows the epic odyssey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from St.
Product Description: The author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth "takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery, insight and appreciation." --Cleveland Plain DealerIn his most ambitious journey ever, William Least Heat-Moon sets off aboard a small boat named Nikawa ("river horse" in Osage) from the Atlantic at New York Harbor in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon...read more
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780736647533 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, August 1, 1999), cover price $112.00 | About this edition: The author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth "takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery, insight and appreciation.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780671535926 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, December 1, 1998), cover price $12.98 | About this edition: Book by Lucy Hamilton
Black and white photographs taken from the air at dawn record America's varied and dramatic landscapes
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Hardcover:
9780893816049 | Aperture, April 1, 1997, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Black and white photographs taken from the air at dawn record America's varied and dramatic landscapes
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780671760595 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, October 1, 1991), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: This runaway 1983 bestseller is Least Heat-Moon's masterful view of the diversity of America--on a 13,000-mile, 38-state, automobile trek down the country's fascinating backroads.
Prebinding:
9781417623570 | Turtleback Books, October 19, 1999, cover price $28.15 | About this edition: Recounts the author's journey through America along the nation's backroads
Hardcover:
9780395486023 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the author's eight-year research into the people, geology, legends, and history of a tiny cross-section of the Great Plains--Chase County, Kansas--to unearth some of the mysteries of nature
Paperback:
9780395925690, titled "Prairyerth: (A Deep Map)" | Reissue edition (Mariner Books, February 15, 1999), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the author's eight-year research into the people, geology, legends, and history of a tiny cross-section of the Great Plains--Chase County, Kansas--to unearth some of the mysteries of nature
Product Description: An exploration of the American heartland, relating the author's journey across the Great Plains to Chase County, Kansas, a sparsely populated area in the Flint Hills. The text attempts to capture the true but rapidly vanishing spirit of the people who farm America's central grasslands...read more
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780671760588 | Nightingale Conant Corp, October 1, 1991, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An exploration of the American heartland, relating the author's journey across the Great Plains to Chase County, Kansas, a sparsely populated area in the Flint Hills.
Recounts the author's journey through America along the blue roads on the map
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Hardcover:
9780316353915 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, October 19, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Recounts the author's journey through America along the blue roads on the map
9780816135967 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, December 1, 1983), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this account of his twelve-thousand-mile journey across America--tracing his white ancestors--a native American reveals a glimpse of backroads America
9780316353953 | Little Brown & Co, December 1, 1982, cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9780316353298 | Back Bay Books, October 19, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Recounts the author's journey through America along the nation's backroads
9780395925027 | Reissue edition (Houghton Mifflin, July 1, 1998), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Recounts the author's journey through America along the blue roads on the map
9780395585689 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1991, cover price $14.00 | also contains Escapa de la carrera de la rata / Rich Dad's Escape from the Rat Race: Aprende como funciona el dinero y vuelvete un niño rico / How to Become a Rich Kid by Following Rich Dad's Advice | About this edition: Recounts the author's journey through America along the blue roads on the map
Prebinding:
9780613125260 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $23.05 | About this edition: A book that describes Heat-Moon's 13,000 mile journey exploring the backroads of the United States.
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