Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world
by Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- (Author)
Summary
"As a boy, Robert Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an... Full description
- Invocation
- Earning the Rockies
- A Continental Empire
- Notes on a Vertical Landscape
- Notes on a Horizontal Landscape
- Cathay
- Epilogue.