An Empire Wilderness
Subtitle: Travels into America's Future
Publisher: Vintage
Published: September 7, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780679776871
Subjects: Travel writing; United States - State & Local - General; Nature/Ecology; Nature; Sociology; USA; Economic Conditions; Sociology - General; Travel / United States / General; General
First sentence: WHEREAS EAST COAST monuments such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Statue of Liberty speak specifically to ideals, the Protestant memorial chapel at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas-overlooking the Missouri River at the edge of the Great Plains, with the rails of the Union Pacific visible in the distance-invokes blood and soil.