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Romancing the Roads
Gerry Hempel Davis
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Description for Romancing the Roads
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
This compendium of facts, observations, discoveries, reviews, serendipities, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the armchair traveler as well. It reads not as a phone directory but more as a shared diary of discoveries along America's highways and byways. Unless otherwise noted, the author has visited every place mentioned, from Bud's Discount Center in Jasper, Alabama to the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. Even if you never get in the car and discover such wonders for yourself, you will enjoy this vicarious journey to places both sublime and ordinary as the author makes ... Read more
This compendium of facts, observations, discoveries, reviews, serendipities, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the armchair traveler as well. It reads not as a phone directory but more as a shared diary of discoveries along America's highways and byways. Unless otherwise noted, the author has visited every place mentioned, from Bud's Discount Center in Jasper, Alabama to the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. Even if you never get in the car and discover such wonders for yourself, you will enjoy this vicarious journey to places both sublime and ordinary as the author makes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9781589796195
SKU
V9781589796195
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Ref
99-15
About Gerry Hempel Davis
Gerry Hempel Davis worked for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, was the youngest producer of the Ed Sullivan Show, and was for several years a correspondent for The Today Show. She is the author of the authorized history of The Today Show as well as The Moving Experience. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Reviews for Romancing the Roads
The memories my friend Charles Kuralt once gave us / Are echoed today by Gerry Hempel Davis / Who also loves driving our country’s back roads / Where America’s romance and beauty explodes. / With the power to touch, to inspire and move. / Somehow I know my friend Charles would approve.
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