
The Longest Road: Overland In Search Of America, From Key West To The Arctic Ocean
In The Longest Road, one of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large.Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled that its Inupiat Eskimo schoolchildren pledge allegiance to the same flag as the children of Cuban immigr...
File Size: 1500 KB
Print Length: 320 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (July 16, 2013)
Publication Date: July 16, 2013
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Language: English
ASIN: B009LRWU9M
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“This is a travelogue of America, and there are not very many, with very interesting stories of the places and the people Phil Caputo experiences traveling across the USA from Key West, Florida to Dead Horse, Alaska above the Arctic Circle. Caputo is ...”
nts in Key West, six thousand miles away. And a question began to take shape: How does the United States, peopled by every race on earth, remain united? Caputo resolved that one day he'd drive from the nation's southernmost point to the northernmost point reachable by road, talking to everyday Americans about their lives and asking how they would answer his question.So it was that in 2011, in an America more divided than in living memory, Caputo, his wife, and their two English setters made their way in a truck and classic trailer (hereafter known as "Fred" and "Ethel") from Key West, Florida, to Deadhorse, Alaska, covering 16,000 miles. He spoke to everyone from a West Virginia couple saving souls to a Native American shaman and taco entrepreneur. What he found is a story that will entertain and inspire readers as much as it informs them about the state of today's United States, the glue that holds us all together, and the conflicts that could cause us to pull apart.
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