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Dayton Duncan
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Dayton Duncan, writer and producer of The National Parks, is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker. His nine other books include, with Ken Burns, Horatio’s Drive and Lewis & Clark. He has collaborated on all of Ken Burns’s films for twenty years as a writer, producer, and consultant. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.
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America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $50.00
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >

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America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Read by Ken Burns
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $30.00
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >
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Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Read by Bill Meisle
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $34.95
Read by
5 CDs/6 hours
A companion audiobook to the 4-hour PBS television series.
From the authors of Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War: a biography of one of the central figures of our literature—the American titan who gave us Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Life on the Mississippi.
Using material from Twain's works... Read more >
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The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Written by Dayton Duncan
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 31, 1999
Price: $29.95
The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.
In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of Discovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading west into the... Read more >

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Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $40.00
Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn “the best book we’ve ever had. There was nothing before. There’s been nothing as good since.” Critical opinion of this book hasn’t dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain “makes possible an American literature which would otherwise not... Read more >

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America's First Road Trip
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $24.95
The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most astonishing—automobile trip across the United States.
In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a “horseless buggy”—but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont... Read more >
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The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $45.00
The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.
In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President oThomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of oDiscovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading west into the... Read more >

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The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Written by Dayton Duncan
Read by Ken Burns
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 4, 2004
Price: $25.00
The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.
In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of Discovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading west into the... Read more >

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America's First Road Trip
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Read by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns and Tom Hanks
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $24.95
The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most astonishing—automobile trip across the United States.
In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a “horseless buggy”—but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont... Read more >
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Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $14.95
Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn “the best book we’ve ever had. There was nothing before. There’s been nothing as good since.” Critical opinion of this book hasn’t dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain “makes possible an American literature which would otherwise not... Read more >
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America's First Road Trip
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Read by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns and Tom Hanks
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $8.95
The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most astonishing—automobile trip across the United States.
In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a “horseless buggy”—but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont... Read more >

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America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Read by Ken Burns
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $15.00
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >

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The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Read by Ken Burns and Adam Arkin
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $10.00
The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.
In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President oThomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of oDiscovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading west into the... Read more >
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America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Read by Ken Burns
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $25.00
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >









