America From the Road

by Reader's Digest Association (Editor)

A motorists guide to America's natural wonders and interesting places. This book includes 125 loop trips that describe almost 1,500 of the most interesting, beautiful, historic, and scenic places in America. Each of the 47 map pages includes from 1 to 5 color-coded tours. The routes are superimposed on standard road maps.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Reference

448 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1982

About the author

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is a global media and direct marketing company based in Chappaqua, New York, best known for its flagship publication founded in 1922, Reader's Digest. The company's headquarters are in New York City, where it moved from Pleasantville, New York.

The company was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace in 1922 with the first publication of Reader's Digest magazine, but has grown to include a diverse range of magazines, books, music, DVDs and online content.

Reviews

[Barbara Radisavljevic · Rating 5 out of 5]

We used this book a lot when we were traveling with the children to make sure we didn't miss anything along the way we might want to see because we didn't know about it. The book is arranged by section of the country. It also contains good maps of the entire country -- road and topographic.

Each section of the country is introduced with the proper sections of those maps, a list of plants, birds and animals to watch for, and some machinery one might see. These lists are, of course illustrated in color. Beside the road map which introduces each section is a list of states and the pages they are found on. For each state there are some suggested roads to take with the attractions one might want to see along the way labeled by number. Then these attractions are listed with descriptions by those numbers so you can see if you want to visit them. There are color photos for some of them. At the end is a general index and a city index.

[Pramod Nair · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is from the 80s and a lot of the information may be outdated - and i haven't seen any updated editions of this title - yet this title is a terrific resource on exploring the great vastness of the USA. With detailed road maps, stunning photographs and travel information this book covers the entire country. Even if you are not planning for a road trip across the USA, this is a great title to have as a coffee table reference book.