The Great American Adventure is a mural painting created by Victor Horvath in 1976. It was formulated into a media history of US-America on September 17, 2001. The book was published upon request April, 2003 by Thorton Publishing. The Great American Adventure spawned Adventur-Cation which is a patent pending education method used to teach children and adults the history of US-America. It is the belief of the book's author that US-America is, at its center, a great country, but too many individuals lack knowledge of US-America's past.
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“The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set in. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)
“Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)