Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West.
The Midlands estate his imagination haunts is set on the edge of countryside, so wooded lanes and dense foliage skirt its borders – but they become sinister and darkly humanised in his depictions.
And this doesn't take into account the millions more who are enslaved within national borders, trafficked from countryside to cities. Macau, China.
For Eritrea, Ethiopia's rapid advance out of the border trenches into the countryside is not merely a military setback.
That probably means capturing at least 40percentt in the economically devastated, gun-loving countryside that borders North Carolina and Tennessee to the south and Kentucky and West Virginia to the west.
From the society's magazine — it is filled with decorous views of the French countryside primly bordered by dated typography — one would expect an old French reactionary of a specific predictable sort: gray-suited, silver-haired, with matching metal-rimmed glasses, a decoration in his buttonhole, and a fierce, intelligent suspicion in his eyes of America, the modern and meretricious.
Signs of corruption dot both the Bulgarian and Romanian countryside along the borders in the form of lavish villas belonging to border guards and customs officers.
Rolim Adolfo Amaro, a pioneering airline executive who played an important role in the modernization of Brazil's aviation industry, died on Sunday when the helicopter he was flying crashed in a deserted stretch of countryside near the border of Brazil and Paraguay.
Driving out of Budapest, we found a BMX spot for Stefan to ride, before slogging the next six hours through the Hungarian countryside, over the border into Romania and finally into Sibiu, Transylvania. .
Deposited on the highway by buses arriving from Serbia's borders with Macedonia and Hungary, people made a more than two-mile hike through the countryside, thus circumventing official border crossings.
