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America Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the Hidden Wonders of the United States - Hardcover

 
9780593836668: America Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the Hidden Wonders of the United States
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0593836669 ISBN 13: 9780593836668
Verlag: Random House LLC US, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

America Obscura, the follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Atlas Obscura, is a road trip into the hidden heart of America—a love letter to the strange, fantastic, and beautiful corners of the United States.

America Obscura takes readers on a journey that stretches from shore to shore, in search of the country’s folk rituals and roadside museums, its outsider artists and eccentric prophets, its forgotten dreamers and improbable visionaries who help shape the landscape every day. Equal parts travel companion and cultural almanac, this is the definitive field guide to America’s hidden marvels.

Start in Alaska, where the whimsical 185-foot “Dr. Seuss House” stacks story upon story into the clouds, and watch the moon-driven bore tide of Turnagain Arm roll in like a liquid wall for sub-arctic surfers. Head south to Colorado to visit the Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival, and then drift across the Great Plains to tour the world’s largest collection of marbles in Nebraska. In New York, meet a ghostly white deer herd that roams a decommissioned nuclear weapons repository, and in Arizona, dine at a pizza shop that also hosts concerts on a 6,000-pipe Wurlitzer organ.

With hundreds of breathtaking photographs, maps, and sample road trips, America Obscura is a vividly illustrated cabinet of curiosities from the award-winning chroniclers of the world’s hidden wonders.

Pack your bags and prepare to be delighted and disoriented, pulled out of the familiar, and dropped into the astonishing as you become re-enchanted with this endlessly curious and surprising country.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Powered by a global community of millions, Atlas Obscura is a media and experiences company dedicated to sharing the world’s hidden places, incredible histories, scientific marvels, and gastronomical wonders. Atlas Obscura produces award-winning journalism and chart-topping podcasts, and has published three consecutive New York Times best selling books, with over 2 million copies in print.

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Introduction

America began as an “experiment”—George Washington’s word, not ours. Could a diverse nation, made up of a hodgepodge of identities, beliefs, and traditions, self-govern and craft a common culture and an enduring republic? The year 2026 marked the 250th anniversary of our country’s founding—a moment when Americans, and the wider world, contemplated who we really are, what we’ve become, and where we’re headed.

Ours has always been a nation of contradictions: founded in the name of liberty by people who held other people in chains; united in principle yet divided in practice; dazzling in our diversity yet restless in our search for a shared soul. At a time when what it means to be American is more contested than ever, America Obscura sets out to cast a raking light across our landscape in search of the true wellspring of the American spirit. We believe that the essence of our Americanness lies not just in our democratic institutions or civic values, but in something deeper and, frankly, a bit weirder—something sustained by imagination, persistence, and care.

To glimpse it, we’ve sought out the country’s folk rituals and roadside museums, the creations of its outsider artists and eccentric prophets, its visionary environments, and its natural curiosities. Though this book nods at times to the tropes ffof a travel guide, it is in fact something different: a collection of places that have been curated to tell a particular story about America, its people, and its true character. This book does not aspire to be comprehensive—how could a catalog of America’s wonders possibly be?—but rather to serve as a love song to the improbable marvels that make this country uniquely itself. And yes, it is also an open invitation to you: to wander, to discover, and to become reenchanted by a nation that is endlessly curious and surprising.

The Atlas Obscura Team

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Verlag
Random House LLC US
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0593836669
ISBN 13 
9780593836668
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
352
Herausgeber
Obscura Atlas, Baldinger Doug, Story Louise
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