Adventures Of A Continental Drifter

Author : Elliott Hester
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781429905428

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Adventures of a Continental Drifter by Elliott Hester Pdf

In October 2002, Elliott Hester sold his car, abandoned his apartment, and took off alone on a trip around the world, during which he drifted to over fifty destinations. Elliott's tales about his travels range from the bizarre to the hilarious to the flat-out shocking. Travel with him as he: · Chases off transvestites in the South Pacific · Gets drunk on Estonian moonshine at the maker's eightieth birthday party · Impersonates Samuel L. Jackson at the 38th International Film Festival in the Czech Republic · Ponders the Finnish tradition of sprinting from steamy sauna to plunge into the frigid Baltic Sea—naked! · And much more. Only an around-the-world excursion could produce such outlandish, hair-raising, hysterical adventures. And only Elliott Hester could make such vivid observations and write such vibrant insights about life---and people---on the road.

Author : Elliott Hester
Publisher : Saint Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0312988788

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Adventures of Continental Drifter by Elliott Hester Pdf

Author : Marianna Harris
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781462859542

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Continental Drifter by Marianna Harris Pdf

The pull of the land on the soul. The healing of the heart from the Source. For thousands of years, Red Rock Country has been a spiritual haven for the indigenous peoples of North America and settlers from across the world. Author Marianna Harris travels the Grand Circle of the Colorado Plateau to bring you the mysteries of the “living landscape” of the American desert southwest. Join a Continental Drifter on adventures filled with humor and insight in confronting the human condition as she uncovers the transformative, healing power of the spirit through nature. Feel the red earth, red rock monoliths, desert sun and summer rainstorms permeate your consciousness and soothe your mind and heart. Nature. Geology. “It’s not just science.”

Author : Dave Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bus travel
ISBN : 1897109881

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Continental Drifter by Dave Cameron Pdf

Author : Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.,Alan Stewart,Rebecca Lemon,Nicholas McDowell,Jennifer Richards
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1335 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405194495

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The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, 3 Volume Set by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.,Alan Stewart,Rebecca Lemon,Nicholas McDowell,Jennifer Richards Pdf

Featuring entries composed by leading international scholars, The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature presents comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature produced from the early 16th to the mid 17th centuries. Comprises over 400 entries ranging from 1000 to 5000 words written by leading international scholars Arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Provides coverage of canonical authors and their works, as well as a variety of previously under-considered areas, including women writers, broadside ballads, commonplace books, and other popular literary forms Biographical material on authors is presented in the context of cutting-edge critical discussion of literary works. Represents the most comprehensive resource available for those working in English Renaissance literary studies Also available online as part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, providing 24/7 access and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilities

Author : Elliott Hester
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781429905411

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Plane Insanity by Elliott Hester Pdf

You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's 92 degrees in the cabin and someone forgot to use deodorant. A baby screams. A kid kicks the back of your seat. After two hours you haven't even left the taxiway. Welcome to modern airline travel! In Plane Insanity, Elliott Hester delivers stories that could only come from someone who "rides tin" for a living-a flight attendant. You'll hear about: * the passenger from hell * a smuggled python * prostitutes working the lavatories * a riot in coach-class * a heist * the anatomy of a carryon bag * a malodorous couple * the Mile-High Club * and more! Fasten your seatbelts. After Plane Insanity, you'll never think of air travel the same way again.

Author : Gary Buslik
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781932361728

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A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean by Gary Buslik Pdf

"If you look at a map, you will see that the island chain known as the Caribbean, or, to confuse you, the West Indies, lies between Florida and South America and resembles a string of gems or possibly drool." And so begins author Gary Buslik's tale of tropical adventure. Each chapter of this often hilarious and sometimes poignant travelogue recounts another island-hopping, culture-clashing crisis that pits the homesick author against falling coconuts, hospitals that remove wrong organs, insects as big and dangerous as stealth bombers, ticket agents that put him on hold for hours, mysteriously calculated currency exchanges, over-proofed rum, livestock, singing Rastafarians, garbage-bin sex, peanut-crazed children, Idi Amin, flesh-eating monkeys, dentists, cricket, steel drum bands, and the French. Fortunately, even when making fun of his West Indian hosts, the curmudgeonly author's essential good nature and devotion to his wife twinkle through, and in the end his stubborn geocentricity gives way to a heartfelt appreciation of his island hosts.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1882 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317451600

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World Food by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

This multicultural and interdisciplinary reference brings a fresh social and cultural perspective to the global history of food, foodstuffs, and cultural exchange from the age of discovery to contemporary times. Comprehensive in scope, this two-volume encyclopedia covers agriculture and industry, food preparation and regional cuisines, science and technology, nutrition and health, and trade and commerce, as well as key contemporary issues such as famine relief, farm subsidies, food safety, and the organic movement. Articles also include specific foodstuffs such as chocolate, potatoes, and tomatoes; topics such as Mediterranean diet and the Spice Route; and pivotal figures such as Marco Polo, Columbus, and Catherine de' Medici. Special features include: dozens of recipes representing different historic periods and cuisines of the world; listing of herbal foods and uses; and a chronology of key events/people in food history.

Author : Tim Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4444417838

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Continental Drifter B Pbp by Tim Moore Pdf

Author : Tim Moore
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0356225305

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Continental Drifter C Book Club by Tim Moore Pdf

Author : Michael McRae
Publisher : Broadway Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780767913928

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The Siege of Shangri-La by Michael McRae Pdf

The story of the quest for a real-life Shangri-La in the darkest heart of the Himalayas– a century-long obsession to reach the sacred hidden center of one of the world's last uncharted realms. At the far eastern end of the Himalayas in Tibet lies the Tsangpo River Gorge, known as “the great romance of geography” during the nineteenth century's golden age of exploration. Here the mighty Tsangpo funnels into an impenetrable canyon three miles deep, walled off from the outside world by twenty-five thousand foot peaks. Like the earthly paradise of Shangri-La immortalized in James Hilton's classic 1933 novel Lost Horizon, the Tsangpo River Gorge is a refuge revered for centuries by Tibetan Buddhists–and later in Western imagination–as a sanctuary in times of strife as well as a gateway to nirvana. The Siege of Shangri-La tells the story of this fabled land's exploration as both a geographical and spiritual destination–and chronicles the discovery at the end of the last millennium of the truth behind the myths and rumors about it. Veteran journalist Michael McRae traces the gorge's exploratory history from the clandestine missions of surveyor-spies called pundits and botanical expeditions of naturalists in the early twentieth century to the recent investigations of scholars, adventurers, and pilgrims seeking the "Hidden Falls," of the Tsangpo, which purportedly rivals Niagara in size and serves as the gateway to paradise. Each explorer's narrative provides increasing evidence of why the gorge has been mythologized in Eastern and Western lore as one of the world's most alluring blanks on the map–and a supreme test of human will. Taking readers on a guided tour of the gorge's landscape, physical and metaphysical, McRae presents an insightful look at the pursuit of glory and enlightenment that has played out in this mysterious land with sometimes disastrous consequences. The Siege of Shangri-La is a fascinating journey through the inner recesses of a remote, mystical world and the minds of those who have attempted to reach it. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1137812342

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Continental Drifter by Anonim Pdf

Fleeing the increasing pressure to settle down, a restless young man heeds the call of the road and sets out on a meandering four-month bus trip from Dawson, Yukon, to Key West, Florida. Continental Drifter is the record of that journey.Although a journalist by training, Dave Cameron is reluctant to play the role. He hopes merely to observe quietly, to collect experience. On the road he meets a variety of strangers, some more strange than others -- from the Dawson City gold miner in designer sunglasses, the evangelistic co-ed, and a number of alcoholics (some more recovering than others) to the owner of a shrine to Elvis, the Crocodile Lady, and the leathery pensioner intent on passing his days beneath the palm trees of Miami Beach.Collecting stories and mementos as he goes, by the end of his travels Cameron has also acquired a richer sense of the possibilities of his own life. Equal parts travel picaresque and coming-of-age memoir, Continental Drifter is at once an interpretation of many fleeting individuals and a gradual discovery of one in particular.

Author : Remy Lai
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250839442

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Pawcasso by Remy Lai Pdf

Remy Lai, the award-winning creator of Pie in the Sky makes her middle-grade graphic novel debut, Pawcasso, about the unexpected friendship between the loneliest girl in class and the coolest canine in town. A Booklist Editors' Choice Winner for 2021, Amazon Best Book of the Month, New York Public Library Best Book of the Year, and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year "It's tail-wagging entertaining!" —Kelly Yang, New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk Every Saturday, Pawcasso trots into town with a basket, a shopping list, and cash in paw to buy groceries for his family. One day, he passes eleven-year-old Jo, peering out the window of her house, bored and lonely. Astonished by the sight of an adorable basket-toting dog on his own, Jo follows Pawcasso, and when she’s seen alongside him by a group of kids from her school, they mistake her for Pawcasso’s owner. Excited to make new friends, Jo reluctantly hides the truth and agrees to let “her” dog model for an art class the kids attend. What could go wrong? But what starts as a Chihuahua-sized lie quickly grows Great Dane-sized when animal control receives complaints about a dog roaming the streets off-leash. With Pawcasso’s freedom at stake, is Jo willing to spill the truth and risk her new friendships? "A beautifully drawn and delightful story bursting with art, books, and fun!" —Maria Scrivan, New York Times bestselling author of Nat Enough and Forget Me Nat

Author : Fred Goodwin
Publisher : Lichtenstein Creative Media
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781933644110

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Vacation by Fred Goodwin Pdf

Author : Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert,George O'Connor
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1596431067

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Journey Into Mohawk Country by Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert,George O'Connor Pdf

Van den Bogaert's journal of their adventures, fears, success, and hardships of making a journey in winter to an Iroquois Country in what is now New York State.