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America's Living History - The Early Years (A Traveler's Guide)
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by Suzanne Sheumaker and Craig Sheumaker
Sales Rank: 448767
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Discount: 27 %
List Price: $29.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 224 pages
Published by: Red Corral Publishing; first edition May 1, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0979259800
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0979259807
Book Dimensions:
10.8 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Description
This is a new kind of history-oriented U.S. travel guide, one that not only showcases premier destinations, but also uses their histories to tell the story of early America. It focuses on the period before the 1840 westward movement and features 300 of the nation's premier living history parks, historic sites, and "museum-plus" destinations. Included are World Heritage Sites, National Parks and Monuments, State and National Historic Sites, and a rich collection of privately operated Living History Museums, categorized in chapters that reflect our nation's early heritage—America's Native Peoples, European Colonization, Religious and Secular Groups, Road to Independence, Our New Nation, and Opening the West. In addition to details about the top historic destinations, this book offers 500 color photographs, helpful regional maps and a wealth of background information to make reading enjoyable and travels exciting.
About The Author
Suzanne & Craig Sheumaker have traveled over 125,000 miles by car and motorhome in recent years, exploring America and visiting hundreds of historic and scenic attractions. Suzanne is a long-time professional writer, and Craig is a graphic designer/photographer. Thanks to portable computers and the Internet, they have been able to work for a wide variety of clients while traveling. Early in their adventures, they developed an interest, and then a passion, for Living History museums and historic sites. They also came to realize that too many of these attractions are hidden gems, unknown to most Americans. Moving and insightful encounters with our nation's remarkable past compelled them to create this unusual travel guide.
Reader Reviews
My wife and I have been traveling America's back roads and visiting its out of the way places for close to fifty years now. We joke that we conceived the concept of "Blue Highways" and traveling them, years before William Least Heat Moon even completed his undergrad work, (reference Blue Highways, A Journey into America by said author). Our travels, over the years, would have been much enhanced, much simpler and certainly more informative and enjoyable had the Sheumaker's book been with us the entire time. I will state, at this time, that through our travels in this country (and several others), we have visited a great many of the places featured in this work. The authors have nailed each site perfectly! That being said.... What a wonderful travel book! For those seeking a vacation, adventure or just knowledge of our great country, this book is for you. You will find no Six Flags, Disney Worlds, or their ilk here. (Very fine places, I know, but not for everyone). The authors lead us to various out of the way places, and show us the roots from which we sprang. The sites featured in this book date from prehistory through about 1845. These are living historical sites, those developed by government agencies or private organizations to educate and display for us, just how it was in days long past. The book addresses 300 destinations, all historic, and each one enough to make a history and travel nut drool. The book breaks the country down into the Far West, Desert Southwest, Mountains and Prairies, Central and South, Northeast as well as the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. Each section is further broken down into America's Native Peoples, European Colonization, Religious and Secular Groups and The Road to Independence. The photographs in this work are rather stunning, not only in their clarity, but composition as well. They truly give you a feel for the place. Each photograph is accompanied by a wonderful explanation and further important details. The authors have provided very nice maps and given good written directions to each location. With each location we are provided with a mini-history lesson, and given a surprisingly accurate and in depth overview of the site, considering the space allowed. The text of the book is simple, easy to understand and, most importantly, informative and accurate! The authors have also provided phone numbers and web sites for each location. I love the way these two have inserted little nuggets of information (found in shaded boxes) throughout the text of the book. These little bits of information are a history lesson in themselves. It should also be noted that with a little research and a little effort on the traveler's part, literally hundreds of other locations can be found near the sites featured by the authors. No book can cover them all, but this one gives you a wonderful start! Bottom line is that this is a very useful book, one that you certainly will want to pack along with you on your next trip, or even better, help plan your next journey. It is well done, interesting and just plane fun to browse through even if you never leave your front door. We carry two very large boxes of various field guides (birds, insects, plants, critters, history books, maps, etc.) on each of our trips. This work will go to the top of the boxes from now on. I do hope the authors plan and second book covering our history from the time this one leaves off to present. Highly recommend this work!
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