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Armchair Travel October 2018
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| Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border by Porter FoxWhat it is: a beautifully written, reflective look at the border region between the United States and Canada, which traces the area's rich history (including the role of Native Americans) and draws on three years of exploration from Maine to Washington State via car, foot, freighter, and canoe.
Did you know? "Before September 11, 2001, half of the 119 border crossings between the US and Canada were unguarded at night."
For fans of: Brian Castner's Disappointment River. |
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A Year Off : A Story About Traveling the World - and How to Make It Happen for You
by Alexandra Brown
A Year Off is one part travel guide, one part travel essays and photos, and one part memoir documenting the story of Alexandra and David Brown, a couple who decided to take a year off from their jobs and 'regular lives' to travel the world together after only knowing each other for a few months. Each chapter provides perspectives from both authors and tackles a different part of the journey, including:
- Practical travel guide providing tips on how to leave your job, budget, pack, plan your route, pace yourself, adjust to culture shock, and re-enter - A look into David and Alexandra's story as they traveled the world together and got to know one another - Colorful essays about adventure travel and all the life-changing moments that come along with it
This inspiring book is for all the dreamers, would-be adventurers and endearingly practical professionals looking to scratch the travel itch and take a risk on what may be the best time of their lives.
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Mysteries, Ghosts, and Death
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| Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin DickeyWhat it is: an intelligent examination of Colin Dickey's offbeat journey to some of the United States' most haunted places that includes interviews with psychics, ghost hunters, and historians, and thoughtfully compares ghost stories with facts, and examines what the differences mean.
Haunted places include: hotels, houses, prisons, plantations, bars, brothels, and battlegrounds.
About the author: professor and writer Colin Dickey grew up just a few miles from California's infamous Winchester Mystery House. |
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| From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin DoughtyWhat it is: an enlightening, clever, and respectful memoir of Caitlin Doughty's travels to observe death culture and rituals in various places, including Spain, North Carolina, Japan, Bolivia, and Indonesia.
About the author: A mortician and owner of a non-profit funeral home, Doughty is part of the death positive movement; she's also written about her work in a crematory in the bestselling Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. |
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| Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie EicharWhat it's about: Using personal journals and government documents, Donnie Eichar retraced the steps of nine college-age Russian hikers in the Ural Mountains in an attempt to explain their mysterious 1959 deaths.
Clues: a tent was cut open, there were high levels of radiation, some hikers were found shoeless in the snow, and one was missing her tongue.
Is it for you? Yes, if you like compelling adventure stories and books that alternate chapters between the past and the present. |
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| The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas PrestonWhat it is: a real-life adventure tale and high-octane account of Douglas Preston's travels in the Honduran jungle as part of a team looking for evidence of the fabled Ciudad Blanca (aka The Lost City of the Monkey God).
For fans of: David Grann's Lost City of Z or William Carlsen's Jungle of Stone.
About the author: Preston is the co-author of the bestselling Agent Pendergast suspense novels; the 1st, Relic, was made into a movie. |
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