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Series
[Qatsi trilogy] volume 1
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A non-narrative film that crosses America to find man-made and natural vistas. Some of the photography is slow motion or time-lapse.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Describes the first transcontinental automobile trip across the United States in which a Vermont doctor, his mechanic, and a dog traveled from San Francisco to New York, in a landscape that had few paved roads, no gas stations, and no repair shops.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anecdotes, observations, and reflections collected during a solo cross-country drive.
When Jacobson announced that she planned to drive across the country alone, she was met with lots of questions and opinions. The most common one: Why? Having always found comfort in solitude, she spent the journey mulling over the big questions-- What do I really want? What is the worst possible scenario in which I could run into my ex? How has the decision to wear...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of experience.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
A documentary retracing the steps of Robert Frank, who journeyed across America to produce the photography book The Americans in 1958. An American journey is a 15,000-mile odyssey through contemporary America, moving between past and present, photography and cinema -- beautifully capturing the wandering spirit of Robert Frank's legendary journey.
48) Utah: a portrait
Series
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Soar above Delicate Arch, the Great Salt Lake, the rugged peaks of the Uintas, and more in John Howe's stunning aerial portrait evoking the breadth and majesty of Utah's landscape. Utah : a portrait combines sweeping aerial photography with words and music to create a colorful collage of this unique land.
Series
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Swooping over the Idaho landscape, this eagle-eye view of the state travels north to south and east to west. The film floats above the Snake River, records major lakes, soars across mountains and glides through desert canyons.
Author
Publisher
Universe
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With deft strokes of his paintbrush and a witty voice to match, master illustrator and story teller M. Sasek captured the essence of the world's major destination and brought them to life for an entire generation of young readers with his This Is series ... Included in this volume are abridgments of: This in New York -- This is Washington, D.C. -- This is Cape Canaveral -- This is Texas -- This is San Francisco.
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"Painstakingly filmed over a five-year period, this intimate view of our country's magnificent landscape will take you on the getaway you can only imagine. Witness the splendor of nature as you've never before seen it. Ride the thundering white water of Oregon's Rogue River. Soar through the bluest skies on the wings of the truly free. Climb the jagged mountains few men have traveled." --container.
56) Carsick
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"John Waters hitchhikes across America"--Dust jacket cover.
"John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads 'I'm not psycho,' he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about: the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash?"--Dust...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A long time ago, Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale used to be friends. They spent their childhood summers running through the woods, rebelling against their conservative small town, and dreaming of escaping. But then an incident the summer before high school turned them into bitter rivals. After graduation, they went ten years without speaking. Now in their thirties, Logan and Rosemary find they aren’t quite living the lives of adventure they imagined...
Publisher
Reboot Media
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Overweight, loaded up on steroids, and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe was at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. With doctors and conventional medicine unable to help, Joe traded in junk food and hit the road with a juicer and generator in tow, vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for 60 days. Across 3,000 miles, Joe had one goal in mind: to get off his pills and achieve a balanced lifestyle.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Celebrated violinist and conductor Scott Yoo crosses the country, exploring the diversity of American musicians, cultures and landscapes to discover how regional and ethnic music has inspired America's greatest composers: Amy Beach, Florence Price, Aaron Copland and two of today's masters, Sergio Assad and Reena Esmail.
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