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"There has never been a book like it. It is gorgeous and richly educational with color photographs having historical value."
carl sandburg
/^»iyhe starving time of 1609-10 left James-/ ll town with "the pallisadoes toume downe 1/ the Indian as fast killing without as the M famine and pestilence within." Survivors were sailing away when Lord De La Warr arrived
with supplies. The tiny colony was saved----
The Hessian sentry peered through the sleet and swore in disbelief as a horde of ragged men advanced on Trenton. He fled, shouting the alarm: "Der Feind! Heraus!" But Washington's army won the day, and
the Revolution lived a little longer----
Dramatic moments, these, in a spine-tingling story told in one of the most important books ever published by the National Geographic Society. When the volume first appeared in 1962 the Library Journal reported that no finer introduction to historical America could be found than in this handsome book...
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Fülszöveg
2D EDITION—350,000 COPIES IN PRINT
"There has never been a book like it. It is gorgeous and richly educational with color photographs having historical value."
carl sandburg
/^»iyhe starving time of 1609-10 left James-/ ll town with "the pallisadoes toume downe 1/ the Indian as fast killing without as the M famine and pestilence within." Survivors were sailing away when Lord De La Warr arrived
with supplies. The tiny colony was saved----
The Hessian sentry peered through the sleet and swore in disbelief as a horde of ragged men advanced on Trenton. He fled, shouting the alarm: "Der Feind! Heraus!" But Washington's army won the day, and
the Revolution lived a little longer----
Dramatic moments, these, in a spine-tingling story told in one of the most important books ever published by the National Geographic Society. When the volume first appeared in 1962 the Library Journal reported that no finer introduction to historical America could be found than in this handsome book that "sparkles with wit, wisdom, and good sense." And the New York Times proclaimed that it "re-creates our heritage with unforgettable richness."
These 576 pages lead you to places where history was made. Stride into Chowning's Tavern in Williamsburg to join a friendly argument between Patrick Henry and Thomas Jeff'erson. Exult with Lewis and Clark at the mouth of the Columbia River: "Ocian in view! O! the joy!" Mourn with Robert E. Lee beside that Gettysburg meadow where Pickett's charge was flung back. Hear the Wright brothers' engine with its tin can carburetor warm up for a 12-second journey into a new age.
This is not only a report on hundreds of national historic sites, state parks, battlefields, towns, homes, and restorations, but a fascinating explanation of their significance.
America's Historylands, enriched with 676 illustrations, 472 in full color, and 38 maps, is available only from the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. 20036. You are invited to write for a free publications catalog and information on membership.
^^met. me try to tell you how It feels to float like a leaf
on a roaring river____You buck and plunge----You
hold your breath Your speed increases----You
smack into the standing wave that rises in the Colorado River like a wall. The raft trembles and buckles upward, and your neck snaps back----You've made it."
That's how it feels to adventuring families who raft the rough-and-tumble Colorado. And how does it feel to strap on tanks and flippers and stare down a barracuda off a Florida reef? To ski down the powdered peaks of the Rockies? To try "mountaineering in the dark, upside down"-the challenge of caving? America brims with such adventures, yours to experience in a lifetime of vacations—and now yours to enjoy in Vacationland U.S.A., a matchless mosaic of a nation at play.
Look around! Just over your shoulder there's a beach to comb, a trail to hike, a peak to scale, a city to savor: swinging San Francisco with-it New York toe-
tapping New Orleans____Try a breakfast by a campfire,
a launch at Cape Kennedy, a feast of fun at fair and fiesta as you roam these 424 color-packed pages.
We're a turned-on nation, no longer content to spend our vacations in a hammock. Each year 40 million pull up stakes and go camping. Scrappy fish lure more than 60 million to sea and stream. Some of us steer a houseboat to adventure with a river for a road. Others among us wing into the wild—or paddle our own canoes. We go rock-hounding, sea-shelling, clambaking, bird-watching, backpacking, bobsledding, snowmobiling.
The old question was, "Where will you go on vacation?" Vacationland U.S.A. answers the new one: "What will you do?" Vacation adventures by the dozen whisk you to the reeling decks of a Down East sloop to the wildlife paradise of Okefenokee Swamp to a pack train wending into a Western wilderness. You bike through Massachusetts and discover the joys of hostel-Ing. You hike with a father and son every one of the Appalachian Trail's 2,000 miles. You prowl ghost towns, digging for bottles of a bygone day. You see horses in the quiet beauty of bluegrass country—and in the thundering excitement of the Kentucky Derby.
You stand by a lake you own in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, a wilderness realm set aside "for the permanent good of the whole people." You find out about other vacation spots you own: wildlife refuges, national seashores, wild and scenic rivers, national recreation areas. (Continued on back flap)
A sunbonneted smile beckons visitors to a Vacationland delight, the Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival In Kutztown; Martin Rogers
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