You could debate that all neat literature involves a journeying of around kind. The thought of a hero project a personal odyssey is likely older than the written give-and-take itself. However the mythological ability of the road-trip inwards American literature seems peculiarly strong. It is America's ur-story, springing from the pioneering journeys of the early on Western settlers. It is inwards many ways the storey of America itself.
The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature's Most Epic Road Trips sets out to map the neat American journeys undertaken yesteryear around of America's greatest writers (and a few non too then great). The map features every place-name referenced inwards twelve American non-fiction books. The celebrated writers featured on the map include Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac too Tom Wolfe.
You tin select to sentiment each journey's route on the map from the map side-panel. Click on private markers too you lot tin read excerpts describing the chosen location. The map thus provides a handy accompaniment to whatever of the mapped texts. However to genuinely appreciate the map you lot involve to read the book.
