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Route 66 Still Kicks by Rick Antonson [Antonson, Rick] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Route 66 Still Kicks about?
Two friends drive the renowned old highway in this "winning mixture of travelogue and history" (Booklist)."You'll never understand America until you've driven Route 66—that's old Route 66—all the way," a truck driver in California once said to author Rick Antonson. "It's the most famous highway in the world."With some determination, grit, and a good sense of direction, one can still find and drive on 90 percent of the original Route 66 today. This memoir follows Rick and his travel companion along 2,400 miles, through eight states from Chicago to Los Angeles, as they discover the old Route 66.With surprising and obscure stories about Route 66 personalities like Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Al Capone, Salvador Dali, Dorothea Lange, Cyrus Avery (the Father of Route 66), the Harvey Girls, Mickey Mantle, and Bobby Troup (songwriter of "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66"), Antonson's fresh perspective reads like an easy...
Who reads Route 66 Still Kicks?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Rick Antonson [Antonson, Rick]
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
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