The Last Empty Places: A Journey Through Blank Spots on the American Map

The Last Empty Places: A Journey Through Blank Spots on the American Map

In The Last Empty Places , bestselling author Peter Stark takes the reader to four of the most remote, wild, and unpopulated areas of the United States outside of Alaska and mainly not part of protect…

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