Read Series: Crown Journeys Series
by Author Roy Blount Jr.
Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans (2005)
“One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere, like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time....
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (2004)
This was a great listen. From Manny's to Edna's to Betty Loren-Maltese ad the disaster that Cicero has always been. Luckily the Bud Billiken Parade went better in the year of this book than it did this year (there were killings, of course). And plaudits to his saluting Nelson Algren's great book,...
Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park (2004)
This book was intriguing to me as my wife and I are about to embark on an adventure of our own into the Yellowstone wilderness. Tim Cahill paints a vivid picture of his time spent in the Yellowstone backcountry, often accompanied by his good friend, the legendary, Tom Murphy. The story takes yo...
The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic: A "Walk" in Austin (2004)
I read this book in one day. It is only 138 pages but it held my interest enough to keep me reading and reading till I finished. It is a book of humour written 10 years ago by Richard "Kinky" Friedman. It is styled as a guide to his adopted city of Austin, Texas. I lived in America for 30 years b...
Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks (2005)
Written November 11, 2009For the last few week's I've kept Bill McKibben's essay, Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks, in my purse, for reading on the subway. This is the first bit of nonfiction that's inspire...
Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown (2002)
Cape Cod is on the North West fringe of America, and Provincetown is on the very edge of Cape Cod. This isolation means it is a place which has attracted those on the periphery of American society too; artists and writers have made their homes here, and hosts a large gay and lesbian community too...
Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket (2004)
Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey ...
Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg (2003)
“[I]n a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our power to add or detract.”—President Abraham LincolnJames M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle ...