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Kingdoms in the air : dispatches from the far away

Shacochis, Bob, author, Shacochis, Bob. Kingdoms in air, Shacochis, Bob. Something wild in the blood, Shacochis, Bob. Here the bear and the Mafia roam, Shacochis, Bob. Huevos fritos, Shacochis, Bob. Greetings from the big pineapple, Shacochis, Bob. In deepest Gringolandia, Shacochis, Bob. Life I didn't get, Shacochis, Bob. Mount Ararat, Shacochis, Bob. Dorado, Shacochis, Bob. Gorongosa

2016

Overview

\"Best known for his sweeping international and political fiction narratives, including The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, which won the Dayton Peace Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Bob Shacochis began his writing career as a pioneering journalist and contributing editor for Outside magazine and Harper's. Kingdoms in the Air brings together the very best of Shacochis's culture and travel essays in one live-wire collection that spans his global adventures and his life passions; from surfing, to his obsession with the South American dorado, to the time he went bushwhacking in Mozambique. In the titular essay \"Kingdoms,\" the longest work in the collection, Shacochis ventures to Nepal with his friend, the photographer Thomas Laird, who was the first foreigner to live in Nepal's kingdom of Mustang as the forbidden Shangri-la prepared to open its borders to trekkers and trade. When the two men return a decade after Laird first lived there, Shacochis observes in brilliantly evocative prose both the current cultural and political landscape of the country and the changes with which his friend has to reconcile. Replete with Shacochis's signature swagger, humor, and crystalline wisdom, Kingdoms in the Air is a majestic and essential collection from one of our most important writers.\" -- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Subject: Shacochis, Bob Travel. / Shacochis, Bob. / Adventure and adventurers. / Travel.
• ISBN: 9780802124760, 0802124763

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3569.H284 A6 2016	1	BOOK	MAPS