Garrett County Press imprint: 66 books

A Complete Guide for Washington and Its Environs

With over one hundred photo illustrations made expressly for this work

by George G. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

An astounding achievement in research and writing, the Guide for Washington is a rare and beautiful book for visitors and time travelers alike. Published in 1892, the aim of the book is to present, with care and reverence, the unbelievable story of the United States Capital -- how it grew from a muggy...
by Rob Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010

In January of 2000, Rob Walker left a high-powered media job in New York, and with his girlfriend, moved to New Orleans. Letters from New Orleans collects, in one volume, the delightful and unsettling observations Walker sent to friends and fans about his intriguing new life in New Orleans.
by Schweser Himelstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2010

The classic underground novel about a Jewish kid from Tennessee, who moves to D.C. and hangs out with militant vegetarians, manifesto-writing shoplifters, and strippers who write feminist theory. The story is told through journals, letters and zines. It's got everything you could want out of a novel: a chase scene, a sex scene, plus angst-ridden critiques of American society.

The Blues Route

From the Delta to California, a writer searches for America's purest music

by Hugh Merrill
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

Journalist Hugh Merrill takes us on a sweeping road trip in search of the distinctly American music known as the blues. Tracing blues culture from its beginning in rural Mississippi up through the Delta to Chicago and beyond, Merrill visits with legendary musicians such as Son Thomas, Koko Taylor, Son...
by Edward Hungerford
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012

Time travel to the early 1900s with this charming and useful travelogue, which was "designed to be of some real help to the vacation seeker who turns his way or his thoughts toward that part of New England touching the Atlantic Ocean ..." All Along the Shore includes broadly informative sketches of Boston,...
by A-No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012

It is recommended the reader drink moonshine before reading this hardnosed edition of A No. 1's hobo story cycle, which presents cautionary tales of clueless youth corrupted by the road. Lessons covered include "do unto others before they do unto you" and the difference between yeggars (who steal and...

The Mother of the Hoboes

And Other Stories

by A-No. 1 The Famous Tramp
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011

Self-published in 1918, The Mother of the Hoboes is an extremely rare book about the life of train vagabonds culled from the personal experiences of A-No. 1, "the famous tramp." This is a dazzling and wild window into an underground culture that has largely vanished -- although some of the adventures...
by A No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

The Snare of the Road was first published in 1916 by A-No. 1, "The Famous Tramp." These are true stories about trains, tramping and hoboes told from the point of view of the tramp. Illustrated and fabulously entertaining.
by Gera-Lind Kolanik, Wayne Klatt
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

On the night of April 7, 1990, newlyweds Nancy and Richard Langert were brutally shot in the basement of their suburban Chicago home. There were no leads. Nothing was stolen. The only clue was an illegible message Nancy left behind, written in her own blood. It was a crime that shocked the community...

Buying the Night Flight

The Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent

by Georgie Anne Geyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

In Buying the Night Flight Georgie Anne Geyer, one of the first American women to cover wars abroad, tells of her thrilling rise from cub reporter to foreign correspondent as she made her way into the male-dominated world of journalism. Born from thirty years of reporting experience, Geyer transports...

Parnelli

A Story of Auto Racing

by Bill Libby
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1969

The story of Parnelli Jones is the story of American auto racing. Jones grew up in Torrance, a tough city on the edge of Los Angeles. A teenage love affair with cars turned into a full-blown relationship with adult speed, running hardscrabble races across the country: from jalopies at Carrell Speedway...
by Philip Van Doren Stern
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012

Civil War historian and celebrated author Philip Van Doren Stern presents an underground history woven from first hand accounts of Civil War spies, scouts, detectives and double agents. Secret Missions of the Civil War gives an inside look into the birth of modern spy warfare: secret codes, Allen Pinkerton,...
by A-No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012

Another edition of the Hobo series as told by A No.1, this time featuring the famed Jack London. Many are familiar with his social activism and literary classics, Call of the Wild and White Fang, but here we have an intimate travelogue of the man behind the legend. Even before his rise to greatness,...
by A-No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

This is the second book in the famous hobo series by A No.1. The writing is thrilling, presenting true, hilarious stories of train hopping and tramping. Warning to Those Who Read this Book: the Author, who Has Led for Over a Quarter of a Century the Pitiful and Dangerous Life of a Tramp, gives this Well-Meant...
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