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Released: April 3, 2012
"Witty, civilized and intelligent narcotourism."
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Released: April 3, 2012
"Warmly ruminative and honestly observant. Witty, unforced humor rescues passages that might be boring in another writer's hands."
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Released: April 1, 2012
"An entertaining and enlightening book from a brainy, foul-mouthed and very funny tour guide."
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Released: April 1, 2012
"A pleasing combination of personal essays and reflections, a love story and a naturalist's view of one of the last unspoiled lands."
Prolific essayist Hoagland (
Sex and the River Styx, 2011, etc.) vividly reflects on a time, 30 years ago, when he repeatedly fled his failing second marriage to follow a younger nurse through Alaska.
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Released: March 20, 2012
"A candid, inspiring narrative of the author's brutal physical and psychological journey through a wilderness of despair to a renewed sense of self."
Unsentimental memoir of the author's three-month solo hike from California to Washington along the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Released: Nov. 8, 2011
"With extensive details and a fond admiration of its people, Keahey effectively articulates why the people of this charming island "are Sicilians before they are Italians, and why no amount of time under the control of Rome will ever change that.""
Veteran newspaperman Keahey continues his exploration of Italian civilization with an appreciation of the rich, vibrant surroundings of Italy's largest autonomous island.
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