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Twenty West by Mac Nelson
offers a glimpse of a boyish and very American fascination with the road that will entice the traveler in all of us to take the long way home.-
The Bhagavad Gita
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Holotropic Breathwork
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Integral Recovery
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The Eight
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Ducktails, Drive-ins, and Broken Hearts
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New York and Slavery
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The Algonquin Round Table
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Growing Up Roosevelt
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Don't Lose Your Good Thing
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Andy Rooney
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Outside Looking In
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The Last of the Ellis Island Jews
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Upstaters
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Smashing the Tablets
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Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India
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Weber and Fields
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Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies
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In the Catskills and My Boyhood
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The Livingstons of Livingston Manor
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The Revelation of the Breath
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The Ritz with a Shvitz
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A Very Unusual Way
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Progressives on the Hudson
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Noteworthy Women of Oswego County, New York
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Cyrenius Chapin
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Listening to Prestige
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The Archaeology of Kingston, New York
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John Brown in New York
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Revolutionary New York
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Mohawk Rebel
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Bobby Darin
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Main Street to Mainframes
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Lessons from Lockport
"Nelson manages to pull off the not-so-easy feat of being quirky, erudite and entertaining" — Chicago Tribune
"Armchair travelers and devotees of American history are in for a treat." — Ann La Farge, The Independent
"A wonderful read for armchair travelers, and the next best thing to touring the length of US Route 20 in person." — Midwest Book Review
"From New York state to Yellowstone National Park, Nelson visits the ridiculous and the sublime … Twenty West shows plenty and according to Nelson, 'There is room for all of us.'" — ForeWord Magazine
"This book is a celebration and a cornucopia of American history and culture. Nelson's curious and fertile mind runs in many directions as he delivers fascinating stories about such diverse Americans as Buffalo Bill, Joseph Smith, Satchel Paige, George Pullman, Ronald Reagan, and Rutherford B. Hayes, as well as stunning insights into writers from Henry David Thoreau to Emily Dickinson. After the road trip, this is a book to savor by the fire." — Hedrick Smith, author of The Russians and Rethinking America
"The author's subject has innate importance; it is a story that until now has been waiting to be told, and it is to the author's credit that he seized the opportunity." — Warren Roberts, Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, University at Albany, State University of New York
"I like Mac's way of combining interesting travel narrative with a wide, free-ranging knowledge of literature, geography, history, and local color. I can hear his voice throughout, and his clear, unique angle of vision." — Sidner Larson, author of Captured in the Middle: Tradition and Experience in Contemporary Native American Writing
"Neslon's got it right. He's an American, along for the ride, from sea to shining sea." — Diana Hume George, author of The Lonely Other: A Woman Watching America
Mac Nelson is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Fredonia and coeditor (with Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson) of Telling the Stories: Essays on American Indian Literatures and Cultures and coauthor (with Diana Hume George) of Epitaph and Icon: A Field Guide to the Old Burying Grounds of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780791474709 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791474704 |
| Title | Twenty West |
| Author | Mac Nelson |
| Series | Excelsior Editions |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2014-07-02 |
| Number of pages | 354 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |