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Armchair Travel August 2019
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Lake of the Ozarks : my surreal summers in a vanishing America
by William Geist
Starring: Emmy Award-winning CBS Sunday Morning Correspondent Bill Geist!
What it's about: Geist reflects on his coming of age in the American Heartland and traces his evolution as a man and a writer. He shares laugh-out-loud anecdotes and tongue-in-cheek observations guaranteed to evoke a strong sense of nostalgia for "the good ol' days."
Book Buzz: Publishers Weekly says "Geist's entertaining account of life in a resort town in the 1960s will certainly resonate with folks of his generation, and will offer younger readers a glimpse into a bygone era."
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| A Dog Named Beautiful: A Marine, a Dog, and a Long Road Trip Home by Rob KuglerStarring: Rob Kugler, a Marine veteran and photographer, and Bella, the sweet chocolate lab who was by his side when he returned home from war and dealt with the loss of his brother, who died fighting in Iraq.
What it's about: their poignant road trip around the U.S. after Bella was diagnosed with incurable cancer, as well as Rob's thoughts about purpose and life and his memories of the military and his family.
Will I need a hanky? Probably -- but you'll have some laughs too! |
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Hungry : eating, road-tripping, and risking it all with the greatest chef in the world
by Jeff Gordinier
What it's about: This is the story of the subsequent four years of globe-trotting culinary adventure, with Gordinier joining Danish chef René Redzepi as his Sancho Panza.
Where do they go? They visit places such as the jungle of the Yucatán peninsula, Sydney, the Arctic Circle, and Copenhagen.
More by this author: Check out X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking and Here She Comes Now: Women in Music Who Have Changed Our Lives!
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Ten years a nomad : a traveler's journey home
by Matt Kepnes
What it's about: The best-selling author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day presents a part memoir, part philosophical travel manifesto that shares stories from his adventures abroad while exploring the nomadic experiences of wanderlust.
Who it's for: Ten Years a Nomad is for travel junkies, the travel-curious, and anyone interested in what you can learn about the world when you don’t have a cable bill for a decade or spend a month not wearing shoes living on the beach in Thailand.
Book Buzz: Kirkus Reviews says, "His story is one of heartbreak, self-discovery, and the constant travel itch he had to scratch in order to become the man he was supposed to be. An entertaining, quick read by a man who did what many of us only dream about."
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Chasing the devil : a journey through Sub-Saharan Africa in the footsteps of Graham Greene
by Tim Butcher
What it's about: Using the 75-year-old travel classic Journey Without Maps as a guide, an award-winning journalist and best-selling author visits Liberia and encounters masked sorcerers who get their powers from cannibalism and long-forgotten missionaries.
Who is the author? Butcher is a former African correspondent for the London Telegraph and author of Blood River.
Book Buzz: Anthony Bourdain says, “Amazing. As history, as anthropology, as a ripping yarn. Both exploration of an epic journey--and a hard yet sympathetic look at a Utopia-gone wrong.”
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The Boys of Everest : Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
by Clint Willis
What it's about: The mountaineering achievements of Chris Bonington's team over the course of four decades, citing the contributions of some of the group's most famous members while recounting how numerous climbers lost their lives, in an account based on journal entries, expedition accounts, letters, and interviews with team survivors.
Who it's for: The daring mountaineer, thrilling adventure seeker, or anyone who has wanted to know what it's like to climb one of the most dangerous mountains in the world.
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| Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by Robert KursonStarring: dedicated treasure hunters John Mattera and John Chatterton as well as legendary technology-averse hunter Tracy Bowden.
What happens: Author Robert Kurson (whose Shadow Divers also features Chatterton) compellingly traces the men's high-stakes quest to find the Golden Fleece, a sunken ship that once belonged to notorious English sea captain-turned-pirate Joseph Bannister.
For fans of: Stephan Talty's Empire of Blue Water, pirates, nautical history, and swashbuckling tales of derring-do. |
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| In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton SidesWhat it's about: the ill-fated 1879 expedition of the USS Jeannette, led by U.S. naval officer and explorer George Washington De Long, who was looking for a passage to the North Pole via the Bering Strait.
What's inside: a dramatic account -- informed by letters, diaries, expedition records, and news reports -- of what happened when the ship became trapped in pack ice for two years.
Read this next: Paul Watson's Ice Ghosts, which details the history of and contemporary search for shipwrecks from an 1845 Arctic expedition. |
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