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One Life at a Time, Please
One Life at a Time, Please© 1988 Ed Abbey204 pages Ed Abbey’s final few years were spent in obsessive work, as he knew he was dying and wanted to make provisions for his family. The Fool’s Progress and One Life … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged American Southwest, anarchism, Edward Abbey, essays, Nature, sports and outdoors, travel
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Lost on Purpose
Lost on Purpose: The Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man© 2015 Patrick Taylor187 pages The real adventure for me was letting go of everything I had defined as important and conducting another experiment with my life. Lost on Purpose … Continue reading
Sean of the South and the Old Man’s Boy
Sean Dietrich and his wife Jamie’s collective world was shaken when their doctor said the C word. Cancer. The emperor of all maladies, the ticking timebomb in each of us. Rather than crumbling into a weeping ball of woe-is-me, … Continue reading
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Tagged American South, bicycles, humor, Of Boys and Men, Sean Dietrich, Southern Literature, sports and outdoors, travel
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Nixon’s pyramid, the future, and intelligent octopus arms
At some point in the last year a book tipped me off to Tom Vanderbilt’s Survival City, in which the author tours ruins and remains of DC’s vast Cold War infrastructure while providing a history of the way popular fears … Continue reading
A Hole in the Wind
A Hole in the Wind: A Climate Scientist’s Bicycle Journey Across the United States© 2017 David Goodrich304 pages A Hole in the Wind features a retired climate scientist touring from Delaware to to Oregon, speaking with people along the way … Continue reading
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Tagged American West, bicycles, climate change, environmentalism, travel
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Travels with George
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and his Legacy© 2021 Nathaniel Philbrick400 pages Travels with George couldn’t help but be interesting, what with its premise of the author following George Washington’s footsteps in an reenactment of his tour of … Continue reading
For all the Tea in China
For all the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Made History© 2010 Sarah Rose272 pages A love of tea is one of the great English stereotypes, at least in the United States, so I thought … Continue reading
Revolutionary Ride
Revolutionary Ride: On the Road to find the Real Iran© 2017 Lois Pryce304 pages It was a note from a stranger that took her to Iran, a request from a Habib of Shiraz that she one day visit his home … Continue reading
Nomadland
Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century© 2017 Jessica Bruder273 pages America has always been a nation on the move, but some people take that more literally than others. Nomadland takes us into the aftermath of the great recession, as … Continue reading
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Tagged 2000s, 2010s, American Southwest, poverty, simple living, travel
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A Plain Life
A Plain Life: Walking my Belief © 1998 Scott Savage 224 pages You have to be careful about working in a library. Sometimes books change your life. Scott Savage and his wife were both librarians whose environmental interests put them … Continue reading