The TRAVELER'S JOURNAL: October sixteenth, looking into 50 places of this Country Unbound.

As our listeners know, the magazine National Geographic Traveler is among this program's supporters. This month, its editors have produced another collectors edition, with profiles of 50 special American places everyone should see.

One of five sections visits ten sublime stretches of country where nature and man harmoniously coexist. One page profiles are penned by an eclectic group. Merry Prankster Ken Kesey covers coastal Oregon. Chef Paul Prudhomme conducts a tour into the Louisiana bayous of his Acadian youth. Rancher and writer William Kittredge wanders the rolling fields of the Palouse region of eastern Washington. Brewmaster Peter Coors gets readers into the Colorado Rockies, and author Terry Tempest Williams the Red Rock Country of the Colorado plateau.

Douglas Brinkley steamboats down the mighty Mississippi River, taking notes on America's collective stream of consciousness. Author Christopher Buckley goes sailing in coastal Maine's Eggemoggin Reach, while columnist Tim Horton meanders about the Chesapeake Bay.

James Beard award-winning writer Anthony Dias Blue savors California Wine Country, where the growing of grapes sets the pace of life, while Nick Clooney enjoys the fertile terrain of Kentucky's Bluegrass country, the land of tobacco, bourbon, horses and history.

Other similar sections cover urban spaces, wild places, natural wonders and retreats that resemble paradise found.

It's certainly an issue worth having and keeping.

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