La Route 66, la madre de todas las carreteras, nació como un viaje hacia la esperanza para millones de estadounidenses que buscaban una vida mejor en las primeras décadas del siglo pasado. De Chicago a Los Angeles, rumbo a la tierra prometida a lo largo de 4.000 kilómetros que se conviertieron en la espina dorsal de este gran país con vocación de continente.

Hoy, ese periplo se ha trans...

An encyclopedia with a twist, The Route 66 Encyclopedia presents alphabetical entries on Route 66 history, landmarks, personalities, and culture, from Bobby Troup’s anthem “Route 66” to The Grapes of Wrath to the Wigwam Motel, illustrated with over 1,000 old and new, color and black-and-white photos and memorabilia.
 
You'll learn about Jack Rittenhouse and Will Rogers as well as th...

Long ruban asphalté parcourant les Etats-Unis depuis Chicago jusqu'à Los Angelès, la Route 66 est plus qu'une route, c'est LA route, de l'avis des férus de voyages et de grands espaces ! Pour ses ardents défenseurs, cette voie de communication constitue même un morceau vivant et palpable du patrimoine américain qu'il faut préserver coûte que coûte. De la "vieille route" définitivement ab...

Begun in 1926 to connect Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 was the country’s first major east-west thoroughfare. By 1930 it was an important route for both truckers and travellers alike, and in 1939 it became known as ‘The Mother Road’ thanks to John Steinbeck’s classic The Grapes of Wrath. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of Americans travelled this great road - from those heading west d...

La Route 66, une légende qui fait rêver les Américains mais aussi les étrangers… Parcourir « the main street of America» de Chicago à Los Angeles est plus qu’un simple voyage. C’est une aventure, une initiation, une occasion de rencontres inattendues, un plongeon dans le passé d’une Amérique profonde. Première route reliant l’Est à l’Ouest, sa vie dura à peine 60 ans avant de renaître av...

This new omnibus combines author Russ Olsen’s successful Route 66 Lost & Found volumes 1 and 2 and adds more than 50 new sites along the Mother Road not included in those two editions. All of the sites featured, more than 200 in all, are reordered from Illinois to California to provide a continuous journey along 66. The maps included in the previous two volumes are updated to feature the ...

Route 66 Highway, first built in 1926-32, offers a fantastic variety of scenery and history. This segment of the highway, from the Gateway to the West through the beautiful Ozarks, is organized in over 300 vintage postcards and color photos that capture travel on "The Mother Road" across the "Show Me State." There are stops at "no-tell motels," gas stations, cafes, roadside stands, and good, ...

Ce n'est pas une route, c'est LA route. Celle qui vous emmène à la dècouverte de l'Amérique, au coeur de son histoire récente mais tourmentée, de ses villes fantômes ou animées, de ses paysages grandioses, luxuriants ou arides et de sa population chaleureuse et bigarrée.

L'odyssée commence à Chicago et traverse huit ètats, Saint-Louis, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Gallup... Tout au long du ...

John Steinbeck famously christened Route 66 America’s “Mother Road” in The Grapes of Wrath, and that chapter about Tom Joad’s exodus is just one of the classic pieces collected in this ultimate anthology. Here’s history, roadside attractions, pop culture, ghost stories—even recipes from famous greasy spoons. And it’s all illustrated with the largest collection of vintage art, postcards, trave...

Ghost towns lie all along the Mother Road. The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boom towns built around oil wells, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than 25 ghost towns, rich in stories and history, complemented by gorgeous sepia-tone a...

More than three decades after Route 66 went by the wayside, so to speak, it remains a nostalgic signifier of a 50-year period when cross-country travel was synonomous with meeting interesting characters, absorbing marvelous new sights, and stopping to check the oil along the way. In this colorful biopic of the "Mother Road," author Tim Steil retraces the wandering path of Route 66 fr...

The author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed Route 66 Adventure Handbook returns with Route 66 Quick Reference Encyclopedia. In one handy volume, novices and seasoned roadies alike have fast and easy access to all of the essential information about America’s most famous, beloved, and culturally significant highway.

Presenting a list of important terms ...

Who says you have to go overseas to study abroad? A cruise on the backroads of the United States can be as foreign an experience as any—Americana is just down the road. Let’s Go Roadtripping USA is the perfect guide to experiencing the world’s melting pot on a shoestring and a fan belt. This book’s eight chapters give eight different itineraries to choose from: Route 66 or the Oregon...