Home Is Everywhere: The Unbelievably True Story of One Man's Journey to Map America

Rich with the small-town characters of mid-century America, Home Is Everywhere spins a tale of travel, love, family, and reflection through the eyes of a man hired to document the last unmapped stretches of a nation.

As a young man living in rural Kansas in the 1940s, Charles Novak took a job with the federal government—not because he liked the work, but because he heard it paid well. That job shaped his life in ways he could never have imagined. As a surveyor for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic...