Recounts the voyage of Hofstra University's traveling course, "An American Odyssey : art and culture across America", a six-week experimental class aboard a sleeper bus. The class visited thirty states and ten national parks, read twelve books by great American writers, and met some cultural heroes.
Content Note
Frank Perugi and his "Majic Bus" -- Virginia is for lovers of Thomas Jefferson and Sam Shepard -- Into the Mississippi Delta -- Chicago : our kind of town -- From Lincoln's Springfield to Truman's Independence -- The New Age, Buddhism, and Boulder -- The Rocky Mountains and Mesa Verde National Park -- San Francisco : the gold and white acropolis -- The Badlands, Black Hills, and cattle branding.