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A Walk Across America is a nonfiction travel book first published in 1979. It was the first book written by travel author Peter Jenkins, with support from the National Geographic Society. The book depicts his journey from Alfred, New York, to New Orleans, Louisiana. While on his journey of self-discovery, he engaged himself in others' lives ...
National Geographic logo National Geographic magazines from 2015. National Geographic is an American magazine noted for its cover stories and accompanying photography. [1] [2] [3] This is a list of National Geographic cover stories including writers and photographers [4] starting in July 1959, when the magazine started featuring photos on the front cover.
Peter Jenkins (born August 7, 1951) is an American travel author known for walking from New York to Oregon between October 1973 and January 1979 while writing a bestselling book, A Walk Across America.
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, [3] sometimes branded as Nat Geo [4]) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. [5] The magazine was founded in 1888 as a scholarly journal, nine months after the establishment of the society, but is now a popular magazine.
Robin Lee Graham (born March 5, 1949) is an American sailor.He set out to sail around the world alone as a teenager in the summer of 1965. National Geographic magazine carried the story in installments (October 1968, April 1969, October 1970), and he co-wrote a book, titled Dove, detailing his journey.
Robert Leslie Carroll Conly (January 11, 1918 – March 5, 1973), better known by his pen name Robert C. O'Brien, was an American novelist and a journalist for National Geographic magazine. He is best known for his novels Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971) and Z for Zachariah (1974), with the former was adapted to the animated film The ...
This differs from the standard written description on the left page and illustration on the right page. Instead, each species gets one full page. National Geographic, with Alderfer, Paul Hess, and Noah Strycker, also published National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America in 2011. A second edition was released in 2019.
The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman is a documentary television series televised on the National Geographic Channel in 2017. It is hosted and narrated by actor Morgan Freeman . Produced by Revelations Entertainment , the series examines some of the fundamental forces that drive humanity including love, freedom, peace, factionalism, power and ...