This multifaceted portrait of the United States and North America explores our physical and cultural landscape through more than 120 geographic, demographic, historical, artistic, and infographic maps of the past four centuries, in reproductions up to 19 x 11½ inches. It vividly depicts everything from the Civil War divide to the civil rights movement, as well as diminishing native communities, national health statistics, and where you're likely to experience an alien abduction. Here too are Jack Kerouac's hand-drawn map of his travels in On the Road, Saul Steinberg's View of the World from 9th Avenue, and the post-apocalyptic world inhabited by Jack Kirby's Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth.