Roads: Driving America's Great Highways
- ISBN-10
- 0684868849
- ISBN-13
- 9780684868844
- Series
- Roads
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 206
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Author
- Larry McMurtry
Description
McMurtry shares his fascination with trails and the culture that has grown up on either side of them as he reminisces about a cross-country trip, recounting the places he's seen, the people he has met and the books he has read. 100,000 first printing.
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