Whether its trains, planes or automobiles this Thanksgiving travel season, take a few minutes to charge that extra battery pack and download a handful of audio books. Skout handpicked four all-American favorites to get you through the interminable TSA lines and traffic jams.  You’ll be thankful for a trip as enjoyable as the feast awaiting at journey’s end.

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Nathaniel Philbrick

An electrifying deep dive into the story of the Mayflower voyage, the Pilgrims, the founding of Plymouth Colony and the bloody battles that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives.

Hamilton

By Ron Chernow

The best-selling biography of one of America’s first disruptors, Alexander Hamilton, an orphan from the Caribbean who rose from obscurity and took the country by storm — then over 200 years later, did the same on Broadway.

The Earth is Weeping

By Peter Cozzens

Post-Civil War, this recent New York Times bestseller, portrays two at-odds perspectives of the nation’s westward expansion into Indian tribal lands and the wars and negotiations that would destroy and clear a path for the modern United States.

Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

By Luke Barr

At the table with America’s founding foodies: James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones.  Luke Barr captures conversations, dramas and meals shared by these culinary icons through the letters and journals of M.F.K. Fisher, written while the group was gathered in the South of France in 1970.

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