Guidebook (Classic Reprint): For the Transcontinental Excursion of 1912: For the Transcontinental Excursion of 1912 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda
Sinopsis
Take a measured, illustrated look at an early 20th‑century journey across the eastern United States. This guide follows a planned excursion from the Atlantic coast toward the nation’s interior, blending travel narrative with geographic explanation and historical context.
The book documents an actual itinerary, pausing to visit universities, government bureaus, and key landscapes from the Blue Ridge and Piedmont through the Hudson Gorge and Mohawk Valley, then on to the Great Lakes region. It explains how rivers, escarpments, and glacial history shaped towns, routes, and shipping lanes, all while tracing the evolution of transportation networks like the Erie Canal and modern railways.
What you’ll experience
- Clear explanations of regional features, such as the piedmont belt, fault-line scarps, and the shift from crystalline rocks to coastal plains.
- Sightseeing notes on major watercourses and urban centers, including river crossings, levee systems, and river navigation.
- A window into the historical planning and execution of a long, multi-day excursion with stops at cities, universities, and ridges.
- Observations on how topography influenced travel, settlement, and commerce across the era.
Ideal for readers who enjoy geographic history, travel writing, and detailed field descriptions of the eastern United States.
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The attempt is made in the following pages to present a concise explanatory account of the larger physiographic provinces of the United States which are to be traversed by the Transcontinental Excursion of 1912, and a more detailed statement of the local features seen along the route of the Excursion in their relation to the provinces in which they belong. The treatment of different parts of our route is unavoidably uneven, partly from lack of material, but more from lack of time available for the work of compilation. If greater emphasis is given to physiographic than to ontographic factors, this is not due to any want of respect for the importance of the second, but simply to the much greater abundance of published material regarding the first.
A number of the specialists whose studies are here cited or who have directly contributed to the preparation of this guidebook will be members of the Excursion for longer or shorter periods. Many details, necessarily omitted here, will be presented orally on the ground by experts well qualified to speak upon them.
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