Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border (eBook)

Porter Fox (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
272 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-24886-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Writer Porter Fox spent three years exploring 4,000 miles of the border between Maine and Washington, traveling by canoe, freighter, car, and foot. In Northland, he blends a deeply reported and beautifully written story of the region's history with a riveting account of his travels. Setting out from the easternmost point in the mainland United States, Fox follows explorer Samuel de Champlain's adventures across the Northeast; recounts the rise and fall of the timber, iron, and rail industries; crosses the Great Lakes on a freighter; and traces the forty-ninth parallel from Minnesota to the Pacific Ocean. He weaves in his encounters with residents, border guards, Indian activists, and militia leaders to give a dynamic portrait of the northland today, wracked by climate change, water wars, oil booms, and border security.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.7.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 5 maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: 49th parallel • Adventure • American • boundary waters • Canada • Canadian • CANoe • Champlain • fur trade • Great Lakes • History • ID • Idaho • Immigration • Lakota • Maine • ME • mi • Michigan • Montana • MT • Nature • Nd • New York • North Dakota • Northeast • Northern • Northwest • NY • Red Cloud • security • Standing Rock • Travelogue • Travel writing • United States • united-states-states • US • Washington • WI • Wisconsin
• ISBN-10: 0-393-24886-0 / 0393248860
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24886-9 / 9780393248869