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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
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Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
5) Travels
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1988.
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The author recounts his worldwide travels and psychic experiments, beginning with his first year at Harvard Medical School in 1965
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[2019]
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Imagine yourself in a schoolroom in one of the most remote regions of one of the hardest-to-reach countries on earth. Nepal. The Lower Mustang region to be exact. To reach it takes a 14-hour flight from New York to Doha, Qatar. Then four hours by air to Kathmandu. Transfer at one of the world's most dangerous airports to a 90-minute flight to Pokhara, followed by a jarring, eight-hour Jeep ride over a vertiginous dirt road — one side is a mountain...
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Pub. Date
1992
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The open road has long been at the heart of the American spirit. From Alexis de Tocqueville to Jack Kerouac and William Least Heat Moon, writers in search of America have taken to the road. Journalist and gay activist Darrell Yates Rist is just such a pioneer, and Heartlands records his unique journey of exploration, a quest for the real gay America beyond the stereotypes of the popular media. In his hundred-thousand-mile odyssey down the "blue highways"...
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