Holidays in heck
Holidays in heck
Book - 2011
A follow-up to "Holidays in hell" collects classic travel pieces written throughout the author's post-retirement years, a period marked by his haphazard journeys with and without family to such regions as China, Kyrgyzstan, and America.
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| Language: | English |
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New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] :
Atlantic Monthly Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West,
©2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Introduction. |t A former war correspondent experiences frightening vacation fun -- |t Republicans evolving : the Galápagos Islands, April 2003 -- |t Monumnetal [i.e. Monumental] generations : the national World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C., June 2004 -- |t Round on the ends and "Hi!" in the middle : Ohio skiing, February 2005 -- |t Riding to the hounds versus going to the dogs : Britain after the hunting ban, March 2005 -- |t My EU vacation : reading the European Constitution on a French Beach, Guadaloupe, May 2005 -- |t On first looking into the Airbus A380 : Toulouse, June 2005 -- |t If you think modern life is awful, you haven't seen modern art : Venice Biennale, July 2005 -- |t My wife's got a gun : Brays Island Plantation, South Carolina, February 2006 -- |t A freedom ride through China : Spring 2006 -- |t Side trip up the Yangtze : June 2006 -- |t A horse of a different color : Kyrgyzstan, July 2006 -- |t Sweet-and-sour children and twice-fried parents to go : Hong Kong, December 2007 -- |t The big stick, or Why I voted for John McCain : USS Theodore Roosevelt, April 2008 -- |t White man speak with forked tongue : the Field Museum, Chicago, May 2008 -- |t The decline and fall of tomorrow : Disneyland, June 2008 -- |t A journey to -- let's not go there : Summer 2008 -- |t The seventy-two-hour Afghan expert : Kabul, July 2010 -- |t Capital gains : Washington, D.C., August 2010 -- |t Home unalone : New Hampshire, March 2011. |
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