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    Bizar wonen

    Bizar wonen

    Paperback, in zeer goede staat

    Toen Jake Halpern een jonge verslaggever was, raakte hij geobsedeerd door verhalen over onherbergzame en helse plaatsen, bewoond door een handjevol dapperen die weigerden te verhuizen. Zij collega-verslaggevers staken de draak ermee en gaven hem de bijnaam Bad Homes Correspondent. Maar hoe meer hij over deze mensen te weten kwam, hoe meer hij bij hen betrokken raakte. Vastbesloten om hun onstuimige devotie voor hun huis te begrijpen, trok Halpern eropuit om de meest ongastvrije oorden in Amerika te bezoeken. Bizar wonen is een onweerstaanbaar portret van deze plekken en van zijn vriendschappen met hun meest loyale bewoners.


    In North Carolina ontmoet hij een gepensioneerde molenaar die in zijn eentje zijn woonplaats beschermde tegen een allesverwoestende vloed. In Alaska werkt hij voor een moedige vrouw die een videowinkel annex leerlooierij bestierd en de krant bezorgd in een besneeuwd gehucht aan de voet van een gletsjer. Onder de rook van een Hawaiiaanse vulkaan verblijft hij bij een kluizenaar wiens huis, een voormalige herberg, is omgeven door gesmolten lava. In Malibu leert hij van een heikneuter die tussen de beau monde woont de tradities van het brandblussen. Op een grenseiland voor de kust van Louisiana vertelt een legendarische ruiter over het overleven van orkanen - door jezelf met je eigen haar aan een boom vast te binden. Gedurende zijn reis onderzoekt Halpern de idee van een honkvast bestaan in een samenleving die steeds mobieler wordt. Onderweg ontdekt hij waarom lava, wind, vuur of water deze onvergetelijke mensen niet van hun wortels weet te scheiden.

    Jake Halpern;

    € 6,00

    The Oregon Trail. A...

    The Oregon Trail. A New American Journey

    Engels. Halflinnen gebonden met omslag (vlekje voorkant linksboven), iets viltstift ondersnee, in goede staat

    An epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way—in a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasn’t been attempted in a century—which also chronicles the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.

    Spanning two thousand miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific coast, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used the trail to emigrate West—scholars still regard this as the largest land migration in history—it united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. Today, amazingly, the trail is all but forgotten.

    Rinker Buck is no stranger to grand adventures. His first travel narrative, Flight of Passage, was hailed by The New Yorker as “a funny, cocky gem of a book,” and with The Oregon Trail he brings the most important route in American history back to glorious and vibrant life.

    Traveling from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Baker City, Oregon, over the course of four months, Buck is accompanied by three cantankerous mules, his boisterous brother, Nick, and an “incurably filthy” Jack Russell terrier named Olive Oyl. Along the way, they dodge thunderstorms in Nebraska, chase runaway mules across the Wyoming plains, scout more than five hundred miles of nearly vanished trail on foot, cross the Rockies, and make desperate fifty-mile forced marches for water. The Buck brothers repair so many broken wheels and axels that they nearly reinvent the art of wagon travel itself. They also must reckon with the ghost of their father, an eccentric yet loveable dreamer whose memory inspired their journey across the plains and whose premature death, many years earlier, has haunted them both ever since.

    But The Oregon Trail is much more than an epic adventure. It is also a lively and essential work of history that shatters the comforting myths about the trail years passed down by generations of Americans. Buck introduces readers to the largely forgotten roles played by trailblazing evangelists, friendly Indian tribes, female pioneers, bumbling U.S. Army cavalrymen, and the scam artists who flocked to the frontier to fleece the overland emigrants. Generous portions of the book are devoted to the history of old and appealing things like the mule and the wagon. We also learn how the trail accelerated American economic development. Most arresting, perhaps, are the stories of the pioneers themselves—ordinary families whose extraordinary courage and sacrifice made this country what it became.

    At once a majestic journey across the West, a significant work of history, and a moving personal saga, The Oregon Trail draws readers into the journey of a lifetime. It is a wildly ambitious work of nonfiction from a true American original. It is a book with a heart as big as the country it crosses.

    Rinker Buck ;

    € 10,00

    Journey to the Source...

    Journey to the Source of the Nile

    Grote, dikke hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Naam op schutblad. Geillustreerd. Engelstalig.

    ''One hundred and forty years after Speke's visionary prediction that Lake Victoria would prove to be the source of the Nile, I had come to Africa to see for myself. I arrived laden with a great store of knowledge about the Nile - all the lore and learning amassed since Speke's great discovery. I had all the facts, but I was not satisfied.''
    Christopher Ondaatje

    Long fascinated with historical exploration, writer Christopher Ondaatje here relives explorer Richard Francis Burton's 1856 expedition to discover the source of Africa's mighty Nile River. In 1996, with a lifetime of world travel behind him and after extensive research, Ondaatje set off to retrace the steps of Burton and other Victorian explorers. Journey to the Source of the Nile brings to life this incredible voyage.

    Like the early explorers, Ondaatje put together a support team and, following the Victorians' routes, encountered the geography, peoples and nature in all their manifestations. With a constant mind to the words of Burton, Speke, Livingstone and the others, Ondaatje views the journey through their eyes but in the light of modern scientific knowledge. His trek across the Serengeti Plains to Olduvai Gorge provides the most striking revelation of all: the forces that shaped the Nile may also have triggered the evolution of the human race.

    In a time of breathlessly fast change, Journey to the Source of the Nile returns us to a slower time, when knowledge was the goal and exploration the means. A fascinating tapestry of history and travel writing, Ondaatje's personal account and his dramatic photographs of this truly extraordinary expedition bring us closer to solving the riddle of the world's most mysterious river. ''Between 1902 and the present, [Africa] has evoked the highest despair of any continent in the world. In a way, perhaps I felt that understanding the difficult puzzle of the Nile's source might also give me some insight into a far more challenging riddle: the turbulent, complex, paradoxical enigma of Africa itself.''

    Christopher Ondaatje;

    € 7,00
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