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Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Dhani Jones, a middle linebacker with the Cincinnati Bengals football team, describes his off-season experiences on the television show "Dhani Tackles the Globe," which took him to different places around the world where he would spend a week learning a local sport then compete against some of the native residents, and discusses how he believes his sporting adventures experiences helped him get back in the game after he was injured.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets, prostitutes, and pirates are palpable, and in the French Quarter, no one ever...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever wanted to take a year off from your life? A meandering, serendipitous journey around the world with your family? It sounds impossible. But one day, David Elliot Cohen, co-creator of the bestselling Day in the Life and America 24/7 book series, decided to make this dream a reality. Over the course of six months, he and his wife sold their house, cars, and most of their possessions. He closed his business and pulled their three young...
Author
Publisher
Publication Consultants
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The State of Alaska is endlessly in the national news--whether the news be political, adventurous, or simply a report on odd occurrences (of which our state seems to have an abundance). Director of the Tours is an attempt by the author to report on both humorous and touching stories relating to the more than one million visitors whom choose to visit Alaska aboard cruise ships each summer. Thirty-five stories concern the author's interactions in unique...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
One of the things I love most about our 'True Stories' section (and by extension, this book) is that readers are so willing to laugh at themselves-they send in what are sometimes very embarrassing stories, because we all know that that's life, especially when you travel." --Erik Torkells, editor, Budget Travel From the French-kissing giraffe to the Coke-drinking camel, Budget Travel's "True Stories" feature proves that life when traveling is indeed...
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Journey back in time with this collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers. These extraordinary odysseys over land and sea captivated audiences and gave them a glimpse into countries, cities and cultures like never before. Tales include Robert Falcon Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition of 1910-13; Robert Byron's ten-month journey through Persia to Afghanistan in the early 30s; Jack London's 1907 sailing adventure across...
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Well known as a political commentator and the author of sixteen novels, William F. Buckley Jr. was also a superb chronicler of travel. Getting About gathers over a hundred of his articles about journeys by boat, train, or plane, representing a lifetime of adventure around the world-from Annapolis to Zurich, from the Azores to the Virgin Islands. An elegant jetsetter with a flair for literary journalism, Buckley had few rivals in the art of travel...
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