Robert Sullivan Channels Lewis and Clark

The New York Times has a review of Robert Sullivan's Cross Country, in which the author recounts a road trip from Oregon to New York with his wife and two children. It's a timely book that I happen to be reading right now, after just having travelled fifteen hours in a minivan with my wife and three kids (and three mp3 players, one dvd player, and five pairs of headphones). Cross Country, though largely a travel journal of the six day East to West trip, is also packed with historical anecdotes, mainly surrounding Lewis and Clark's pioneering expedition and the migrations that followed.

Robert Sullivan is the author of Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants and a contributor to Vogue, Conde Nast Traveler and The New York Times Magazine. How about some audio? Terry Gross interviewed Sullivan on NPR's Fresh Air this past week.