Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world

As a boy, Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father's evocative stories about traveling across America. Now he undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. In his moving meditations, Kaplan shows how we must understand our geography in order to confront the challenging, anarchic world that Kaplan describes.