In Search of Small-Town America: The Complete Library
In Search of Small-Town America: The Complete Library
All seventeen Volumes. States one through fifty.
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The Complete Library
• 6,621 Pages
• 4, 052 Photographs
• 374,300 Words approx.
• 1.65 GB Pdf Download - Zip file*
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Content
The Introduction - and all fifty chapters: From 'the off’ in New Mexico – to the ‘final farewell’ from Hawaii. Day one – to day three-fifty. From the sublime to the absurd, the ordinary to the incredulous, the triumphs and the tragedies. The ‘ups’ and the ‘downs’. Main streets, side-streets and signs. Shops and businesses and offices. Trailer-homes and houses – cars, vans and trucks. People, pooches and porches. Hotels and motels, campgrounds and fairgrounds. Churches, trains, bridges and buses – and lots and lots, of bars. Thirty-two thousand, six hundred-and-sixty road-miles – and nine thousand in the air – ‘In Search of Small-Town America.’
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Digital Downloads
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What Readers are Saying…
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Wayne Jackman
Read moreThe work is a unique and innovative mix of superb photographs, and an eloquent but quirky, daily diary – as the author voyages on a daunting solo trip through every State in America – in one year!
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Susan Toft
Read moreThis is unlike anything I've ever read before, with an intriguing combination of pictures and prose, interwoven in such a perceptive, and imaginative way. This is 'Click-Lit' – and I'm coining the phrase.
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Michael Hearn
Read moreI was captivated by this work, and the ambitious intention, but the methodical way in which the author has carried it out in such wonderful detail of words and images, is nothing short of astonishing.
His aim is to discover and document the small town ethos that was once all pervasive in this wonderful Country, but is now sadly, in slow but steady decline. It needed to be documented. And this is it! Add to this mix some fascinating facts, and often biting observations, and you have a gripping account of one man's quest to record the hidden and fading treasures that constitute 'Small-Town America'. The sole drawback is – America has only fifty States. I wanted more.
Wayne Jackman – Award-winning scriptwriter and author
This is 'Click-Lit' – and I'm coining the phrase.
I entered a truly special world when I opened this book. It felt that I travelled every mile, along with the author. The triumphant highs, the stoic lows – joy, tears and laughter. Absolutely beautiful photography, amusing but insightful words, and with a generous helping of social history thrown in. I have been educated and very thoroughly entertained.
Susan Toft – Retired Publican and consummate reader
The reader will be struck by how well the diary entries are linked with the photographs, with either leading the eye to the other. As with every honest diarist, from Pepys onward – his disappointments, his successes, the expletives, the arguments – and so we read on, to find out 'what happened next'. And not only are we treated to a rich and intelligent narrative, and a collection of thought-provoking pictures, we are also learning something about the Country, as the journey progresses.
Michael Hearn – Retired Librarian and book collector