New Releases by Charles Kuralt

A collection of essays about the people, places, and ideas that define our national spirit.

The author shares his remarkable journey to slices of America that have been closest to his heart.

"A professional memoir of a gifted, good-humored and gracious man...The book has the feel of good conversation on a long trip." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW John Charles Kuralt on the journey of his life. From a southern boy bitten by wanderlust and wonder, to a curious rover writing for newspapers, radio, and TV, to a CBS News correspondent adventuring around the world--from Cuba and Vietnam to the Congo and the North Pole, to his twenty-plus years roaming the back roads of America. In this engaging memoir, Kuralt relives a lifetime of discovering places and people whose unique stories enriched him, shaped him, and fueled his all-consuming passion: to find out what wonderful thing waits just around the next bend.

This is a celebration of North Carolina--the people, scenery, food, history, and much more. Color and black-and-white photographs.

Charles Kuralt, bestselling author and inveterate traveler, takes a nostalgic trip back to his early years in the South, sharing the phenomena that has made the Southern spirit what it is. Illustrated with over 400 duotone and 50 full color photographs.

"Read Kuralt''s words and discover America with him."UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONALHe has entertained and informed us about ourselves on television for years. Taking to the highways, he has met the little-known and the famous, and shared them with the rest of us. This heartwarming book reminds us again of some of the extraordinary people he has met over the years in words and photographs, and provides the exact words of the interviews, so that we can permanently enjoy his visits with people we have come to know and care for, again and again. "From the Paperback edition."

"This book is about the South - the rural South anyway - as it still is, but won''t be forever"--Page 8.