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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 146 min.) : sound, color w/black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than...
Author
Series
Publisher
PFP Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dessert with Buddha takes the eccentric, sort-of-Buddhist monk, Volya Rinpoche, and his skeptical, middle-of-the-road brother-in-law, Otto Ringling, on another enlightening road trip filled with meals, humor, social commentary, and good times. On this journey, the couple ... heads down the Eastern Seaboard from Boston to points south. Along the way, they meet an array of intriguing characters (from a former NBA star to a Holocaust survivor, from an...
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sound, color, black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the most important expedition in American history, led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Includes the stories of the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea who went with them.
Publisher
[Saltville Information Center?]
Pub. Date
[between 1970 and 1979?]
Physical Desc
16 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sites include: J.E.B. Stuart House, King Salt Mine, William A. Stuart house, Palmer Inn, Kent house, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Madam Russell Church, Saltville Museum, Well Fields, Preston house, Civil War cannon at Elizabeth Cemetery, Saltville Battlefield (Oct. 2, 1864), and Muck Dam.
9) Mother, nature: a 5,000-mile journey to discover if a mother and son can survive their differences
Author
Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this breathtaking story, the author and his mother retrace the 5,000-mile journey she walked with his father, a travel writer in the 1970s, discovering who she was then and who she is now--a parent who loves her son yet holds onto a version of faith that sees his sexuality as sin.
Author
Series
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mysterious nighttime lights near Brown Mountain in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest have intrigued locals and visitors for more than a century. The result of a three year investigation, this book identifies both manmade and natural light sources--including some unexpected ones--behind North Carolina's most famous ghost story"--
Author
Series
Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
xiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This volume relates author's one-of-a-kind back packing trip along 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway, most visited National Park Service unit. Also covers twelve years spent working as a Blue Ridge Parkway park ranger. Anecdotal history and accounts from some of the parkway's earliest rangers complete this tale of one of our country's national treasures"--Provided by publisher.
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