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Show Local Area Featured in New Book Moab, Utah and tU surrounding sur-rounding countryside are described in a new book. The book "The Lost Towns and Roads of America" Am-erica" by J. R. Humphreys describes two automobile trips the author took a-cross a-cross the country in 1959 and 19C6. Mr. Humphreys describes des-cribes his travels through this area an other towns isolated by the giant web of turnpikes and which continue to exist much in the way they did in the past. "The Lost Towns an! ,':j.'il-i of America" will be p.ibli: hod by Harper Sc Row, New York pjbli; tiers, ti-ers, on Oct. 25, and will be sold in bookstores Uiroe.ghoi'.t the country. "Following selected selecied roads, the rnolo -ist con have a view of th.. land that ha::n't been see:: m a Ion,. long time," writes Mr. Humphreys. "'t '.'an be, virtually a trip into, and lh' . n across a jc' i n t ryside, buried in the past, but f;.r from riead; not ju-t a journey from ghost town to ghot town, bet a journey though by time machine from one living Amenc-: Krigadoon to another.'' Jr. R. Ilumphi eys is Director of the Writir i Proer-im and Lecturer :a English at Columbia University. |