Route 22

Route 22 is a 350-mile highway that connects Manhattan and Montreal. Oneday while driving on it, Benjamin Swett was struck by the contrastbetween the landscape he could see through his car window and the moreromantic one he remembered from his childhood. Without any particularplan, he set out to discover how the upstate New York of James FenimoreCooper and Thomas Cole became this other place—a seemingly lost,untended region of Off-Track Betting Parlors and Tattoo Emporiums,abandoned diners, and ancient buildings crumbling into forgotten canals.The result of his exploration is this book—an insightful and deeplypersonal meditation on this complicated and beautiful landscape,accompanied by ninety evocative photographs.