About this ebook
In the winter of 1992, photographer Andrea Pistolesi and journalist Guido Zurlino traveled the full length of US Route 1, from the Canadian border to Key West.
A continuous southbound trajectory—across winter light, changing latitudes, and a United States observed at a moment that now belongs to a different time.
This book is the visual record of that journey.
Structured by the road itself, the work follows a single geographic axis, documenting landscapes, towns, roadside architecture, and fragments of everyday life along the eastern seaboard. It is not a guide, nor a narrative of destinations, but a sequence of observations shaped by distance and progression.
The photographs belong to a pre-digital moment, both in subject and in method: a slower geography, where continuity was physical and unbroken, and where the road defined the experience.
Seen today, the work also functions as a document of transition—recording places, atmospheres, and visual rhythms that, in many cases, have since been altered, replaced, or disappeared.
This 33rd Anniversary Edition restores and re-edits the original material, preserving its documentary integrity while presenting it in a format adapted for contemporary viewing.
Not a reinterpretation, but a return to a journey measured in distance, light, and time.
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About the author
Andrea Pistolesi prefers to define himself as a traveler who photographs rather than a photographer who travels. He lives between Florence and Bangkok from where he works for the major
international magazines. He has worked as a photographer for over thirty years and has published over one hundred photographic books and held solo exhibitions a
Guido Zurlino is a travel journalist, translator and interpreter, he has collaborated with the major Italian publishers translating over two hundred books and publications, and writing articles for
travel magazines. He lived for years in the USA cultivating an interest in Underground culture and music and subsequently visited numerous Asian countries for work.
He loves blues, British Prog, experimental music and oriental philosophies.
Massimo Morello was born in a year of the buffalo on the Adriatic coast. He lives in Bangkok in a house above the Chao Phraya River. He graduated in history and philosophy. and still is an
independent and nomadic journalist. After wandering a little everywhere, dedicating himself in particular to adventure travel and exploration, in recent years he has focused on geopolitics and
Asian culture. He collaborates with newspapers of all kinds; he is the author of travel guides and books and writes short stories.
