Product Description: Renowned photographer Carol M. Highsmith and writer Ted Landphair take a fresh look at some of the most remarkable structures ever built in America. Many of the sights included, such as Hoover Dam, were built to serve a critical function; for others, like the St...read more

Product Description: Las Vegas: A Photographic Tour reveals the evolution of a place that began as a Mormon missionary fort in the middle of the desert and became the most extravagant fantasy land in the world. Here are the histories of such famous sites a Caesars Palace, Glitter Gulch, Fremont Street, and La Concha Motel--tales both sordid and glamorous...read more

Product Description: A brand new, original book with stunning images by Carol Highsmith, photographer of the Photographic Tour and Pictorial Souvenir series, as well as fascinating black and white archival photographs, about the remarkable place that marked the first step to a new life for the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to America...read more

Product Description: A brand new, original photo guide to the fascinating world of lighthouses from coast to coast, with beautiful color photography by Carol M. Highsmith, creator of the Photographic Tour and Pictorial Souvenir series.

Product Description: The New England Coast, stretching across Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, is one of the classic landscapes of America. The craggy cliffs, shifting dunes, and numerous bays and narrow coves of the area echo with the sound of this country's history...read more

Product Description: At over twenty-one hundred miles, the Appalachian Trail is the world's longest footpath. The scenic north-south trail connects fourteen states from Maine to Georgia and wanders through ridge lines, valley floors, wildflower meadows, isolated cow pastures, and over mountaintops including Clingmans Dome in North Carolina (6,643 feet) and Mount Washington in New Hampshire (6,288 feet)...read more

Product Description: The famous phrase from the nineteenth century, "Go West young man," still has meaning today. California is as far west as you can go in the United States—in geography and in mind—and has come to represent America's "land of milk and honey...read more

Product Description: Striking images by historical photographer Carol Highsmith, supported by the informed text of writer-reporter Ted Landphair, take the observer into the individual hearts of such a great American city. This book provides a souvenir of a memorable visit or can be a wish book for those who have yet to experience San Francisco's particular pleasures...read more

Product Description: Striking images by historical photographer Carol Highsmith, supported by the informed text of writer-reporter Ted Landphair, take the observer into the individual hearts of such a great American city. This book provides a souvenir of a memorable visit or can be a wish book for those who have yet to experience Texas' particular pleasures...read more

Product Description: Striking images by historical photographer Carol Highsmith, supported by the informed text of writer-reporter Ted Landphair, take the observer into the individual hearts of this great American city. This book provides a souvenir of a memorable visit or can be a wish book for those who have yet to experience Philadelphia's particular pleasures...read more

Product Description: The Pacific Northwest—Oregon, Washington State, parts of northern California, and Canadian British Columbia—is a region of staggering beauty. From the area's stunning expanse of forests to its wild seashore to its innumerable lakes and rivers to the imposing snow-clad peaks of Ranier, Hood, and Shasta, the area is—without much hyperbole—spectacular, panoramic, and sublime...read more

Superlative full-color photographs and an evocative text capture the world of the Amish, documenting their way of life, beautiful craftwork, food, homes, work and recreation, and other aspects of Amish society.

Product Description: Wisconsin, the perfect state? Regarded primarily as the beer and cheese capital of the United States and the home of the legendary football team the Green Bay Packers, many outsiders might question that claim. Of course, natives take it for granted...read more

Product Description: Philadelphia, Quaker William Penn's "City of Brotherly Love" and the home of Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, is known the world over as the birthplace of the United States.Benjamin Franklin—famed diplomat, eccentric inventor, and publisher—was Philadelphia's postmaster as well as the founder of the renowned University of Pennsylvania...read more

Product Description: North Carolina is one of America's most temperate, scenic, and historic states. It is the home of exquisite colonial mansions, Civil War battlefields, and energetic midsized cities. It is one of the nation's most modern and distinct states, and many localities have been rated among the nation's top-ten places to live...read more

Product Description: The great crooner Tony Bennett, in the most famous song about San Francisco, left his heart in this remarkable city. And O. Henry, the famed short-story writer, accurately states: East is East "and West is San Francisco." More than Los Angeles, San Francisco is the epitome of the West Coast, as the city seems to encourage people to "do their own thing...read more

Product Description: Imagine New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and the six New England states. Texas is bigger than all of them put together. Texas is bigger than all of them put together. In the minds of most Americans, Texas is the nation's biggest state...read more

The newest installment in the popular Pictorial Souvenir series is designed for travel buffs and armchair travelers alike, pairing concise text with images of locales from the Panhandle to the Keys.

Product Description: Who could have dreamed, when Peter Minuit traded a few trinkets for Manhattan back in 1626, that this little island on the outer reaches of civilization would one day be the world's center of shipping, finance, theater, culture, architecture, and diplomacy? Through the tireless work and unbounded optimism of a few wealthy dreamers and a few million immigrant workers, this rocky, swampy islet at the mouth of the Hudson River was transformed into today's axis of world capitalism—a dazzling metropolis of soaring skyscrapers and great city parks, magnificent museums and professional sports teams, epicurean restaurants and intricate subway systems...read more

Product Description: Colorado is a nature-lover's paradise. It is a land of golden aspens, majestic canyons, sparkling, snow-capped mountains, and cool, clear streams where bear and elk, bison and beaver, coyotes, and mountain lovers roam freely as nature intended...read more

Product Description: Virginia, the "Old Dominion" state, is at once timeless and strikingly contemporary. Birthplace of eight of America's presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, and home to an impressive array of ultra-modern industries, Virginia is a land of endless variety, beauty, and charm...read more

Product Description: Travel through the lush Everglades, experience the majestic beauty of the Keys, and revel in all of the many facets of the Sunshine State in this dazzling addition to the popular series.