Continental Drifter

2012-02-13

Continental. Drifter. HAVE YOU EVER REALLY LOOKED at the landscapes of the Southwest? The deserts, mountains, rivers and sky? The cacti, mesas, buttes, and sand? Something in the miraculous nature of the red rocks of the Southwest has ...

Author: Marianna Harris

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

ISBN: 9781462859542

Category: Travel

Page: 182

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The pull of the land on the soul. The healing of the heart from the Source. For thousands of years, Red Rock Country has been a spiritual haven for the indigenous peoples of North America and settlers from across the world. Author Marianna Harris travels the Grand Circle of the Colorado Plateau to bring you the mysteries of the “living landscape” of the American desert southwest. Join a Continental Drifter on adventures filled with humor and insight in confronting the human condition as she uncovers the transformative, healing power of the spirit through nature. Feel the red earth, red rock monoliths, desert sun and summer rainstorms permeate your consciousness and soothe your mind and heart. Nature. Geology. “It’s not just science.”
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Adventures of a Continental Drifter

2007-04-01

ADVENTURES OF A CONTINENTAL DRIFTER AN AROUND-THE-WORLD EXCURSION INTO WEIRDNESS, DANGER, LUST, AND THE PERILS OF STREET FOOD Elliott Hester St. Martin's Griffin New York Copyright ADVENTURES OF A CONTINENTAL DRIFTER. © 2005 by Elliott.

Author: Elliott Hester

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

ISBN: 9781429905428

Category: Travel

Page: 320

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In October 2002, Elliott Hester sold his car, abandoned his apartment, and took off alone on a trip around the world, during which he drifted to over fifty destinations. Elliott's tales about his travels range from the bizarre to the hilarious to the flat-out shocking. Travel with him as he: · Chases off transvestites in the South Pacific · Gets drunk on Estonian moonshine at the maker's eightieth birthday party · Impersonates Samuel L. Jackson at the 38th International Film Festival in the Czech Republic · Ponders the Finnish tradition of sprinting from steamy sauna to plunge into the frigid Baltic Sea—naked! · And much more. Only an around-the-world excursion could produce such outlandish, hair-raising, hysterical adventures. And only Elliott Hester could make such vivid observations and write such vibrant insights about life---and people---on the road.
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Continental Drifter

2004

“ Nobody picks berries anymore ; nobody walks anywhere anymore ; nobody takes time for the things that require time . Well , I still do , I try and use the land a like the bears , okay , like it's supposed to II CONTINENTAL DRIFTER.

Author: Dave Cameron

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ISBN: 1897109008

Category: Travel

Page: 236

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Fleeing the increasing pressure to settle down, a restless young man heeds the call of the road and sets out on a meandering four-month bus trip from Dawson, Yukon, to Key West, Florida. Continental Drifter is the record of that journey. Although a journalist by training, Dave Cameron is reluctant to play the role. He hopes merely to observe quietly, to collect experience. On the road he meets a variety of strangers, some more strange than others -- from the Dawson City gold miner in designer sunglasses, the evangelistic co-ed, and a number of alcoholics (some more recovering than others) to the owner of a shrine to Elvis, the Crocodile Lady, and the leathery pensioner intent on passing his days beneath the palm trees of Miami Beach. Collecting stories and mementos as he goes, by the end of his travels Cameron has also acquired a richer sense of the possibilities of his own life. Equal parts travel picaresque and coming-of-age memoir, Continental Drifter is at once an interpretation of many fleeting individuals and a gradual discovery of one in particular.
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Continental Drifter

2002

Tim Moore travels through 45 cities in the steps of a larger-than-life Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England and thus ending forever the days of the finger-lickin'-good drumstick hurlers of courts gone by.

Author: Tim Moore

Publisher: Little Brown GBR

ISBN: 0349114196

Category: Europe

Page: 384

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They stuck their coaches on ride-on, ride off ferries, whisked through France and Italy moaning about garlic and rudeness, then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their holiday watercolours' Many people associate the Grand Tour with the baggy shirted Byrons of its 19th century heyday, but someone had to do it first and Thomas Coryate, author of arguably the first piece of pure travel writing, CRUDITIES, was that man. Tim Moore travels through 45 cities in the steps of a larger-than-life Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England and thus ending forever the days of the finger-lickin'-good drumstick hurlers of courts gone by. Coryate's early 17th century bawdy anecdotes include being pelted with eggs, pursued by a knife wielding man in a turban and, finally, being vomited on copiously by a topless woman with a beer barrel on her head:- For once, Tim Moore has no trouble keeping up the modern-day side. And his authentic method of travel to replicate these adventures? A clapped-out pink Rolls Royce, of course.
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Thailand A Climbing Guide

2005

CIRCUS OZ 7a (5.11d), 123 meters, 14 quickdraws**** F.A. M. Matheson, G. Tempest, Richard Smith, and “El Gordo,” date unknown This route is, in my opinion, a contrivance of Lord of the Thais . . . and Continental Drifter.

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Publisher: The Mountaineers Books

ISBN: 9781594851285

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 333

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350 graded sport routes. Post tsunami information. Information on Thai history, culture, geology and language phrases
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Backpacker

1998-10

KELTY has designed travel gear for the modern continental drifter. From wallet organizers to closet-sized duffels to wheeled luggage, each piece is thoughtfully developed and ultimately functional. Call Pangaea at (888) KLTY PAN for a ...

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Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
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More Blues Singers

2015-11-05

On the twenty-fifth album of his career, Continental Drifter, the closing song is “Please Remember Me.” There is no doubt that, with the wealth of music and fond memories that Musselwhite has presented to the world in his many years as ...

Author: David Dicaire

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 9780786462421

Category: Music

Page: 296

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The first book by David Dicaire, Blues Singers: Biographies of 50 Legendary Artists of the Early 20th Century, (McFarland, 1999), included pioneers, innovators, superstars, and cult heroes of blues music born before 1940. This second work covers those born after 1940 who have continued the tradition. This work has five sections, each with its own introduction. The first, Modern Acoustic Blues, covers artists that are major players on the acoustic blues scene of recent time, such as John Hammond, Jr. The second, Contemporary Chicago Blues, features artists of amplified, citified, gritty blues (Paul Butterfield and Melvin Taylor, among others). Section three, Modern American Electric Blues, includes some Texas blues singers such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan and examines how the blues have spread throughout the United States. Contemporary Blues Women are in section four. Section five, Blues Around the World, covers artists from four different continents and twelve different countries. Each entry provides biographical and critical information on the artist, and a complete discography. A bibliography and supplemental discographies are also provided.
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Sites of Exchange

2006

Moore's journey, narrated in Continental Drifter. Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist (2001), is, like Dalrymple's, the modern re-enactment of a famous first journey, and it is performed in a similar carnival mood.

Author: Maurizio Ascari

Publisher: Rodopi

ISBN: 9789042020153

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 296

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Crossing borders – both physically and imaginatively – is part of our 'nomadic' postmodern identity, but transcultural and transnational exchanges have also played a major role in the centuries-long processes of hybridisation that helped to fashion the vast geographic, political and imaginative container of diversity we call Europe. This volume gathers together the work of scholars from several European countries in an attempt to encourage a collective reflection upon historical – and often 'mythical' – locations and landscapes, as well as upon the thresholds and faultlines that unite or separate them. The issues the volume tackles are delicate and complex, for the encounter of differences engenders both curiosity and suspicion and there is no easy way to create a new synthesis while respecting and promoting diversity. However, since Europe is inevitably a cultural and political entity 'in the making', Europeans should embrace the 'great narrative' of a 'utopian project', uniting their efforts to work towards a civilisation that is grounded on plurality and openness.
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Messin With The Blues Harmonica Crossword Puzzles

2016-07-24

RECORDED ALBUM CONTINENTAL DRIFTER IN THIS COUNTRY 13. RECORDED ALBUM GETUP! WITH HIM 15. APPEARED ON COVER OF THIS JAZZ MAG IN 2013 16. CONTRIBUTED TO THIS CYNDI LAUPER ALBUM 18. WORKEDATA RECORD STORE WITH THIS BLUESSINGER 20.

Author: Aaron Joy

Publisher: Lulu.com

ISBN: 9781365278075

Category: Games & Activities

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Music reviewer, podcaster, historian Aaron Joy presents his series of blues music crossword puzzle books, stemming from his series of rock music crossword puzzle books. A great starting point for growing a music collection, winning the next game of music trivia or honoring great blues musicians. This volume of 15 puzzles features the topics: Carey Bell, Billy Branch, Shakey Jake Harris, Sugar Blue, Slim Harpo, Charlie Musselwhite, Little Walter, Darrell Mansfield, Magic Dick, Paul deLay, Louisiana Red, Little Sonny, Big Walter Shakey Horton, Billy Boy Arnold, Grady Champion, Curtis Saldago, Sonny Terry, Jerry Portnoy, Snooky Pryor, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Paul Butterfield, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Junior Wells, John Popper & Blues Traveler, James Cotton.
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Private Voices Public Lives

1995

METAMORPHOSIS MUTATIONS OF A HUNGARIAN CONTINENTAL DRIFTER INTO AN AMERICAN WOMAN OLGA KLEKNER America The gold of her promise has never been mined Discover this country dead centuries cry Her borders of justice not clearly defined ...

Author: Jane Tompkins

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

ISBN: 0929398882

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 319

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Interweaving the personal, private voice with scholarly, public intent, Nelson and the other contributors argue for a more interactive and cooperative approach to the teaching, reading, critiquing, and writing of literature. These essays are a direct result of the desire by many women within the academic community to break free of what has been called the “masculine” or “adversary” mode of literary criticism. Private Voices, Public Lives is of critical importance to readers, teachers, reviewers, and critics. The essays incorporate ideas on current issues of autobiography, memoir, women's voice, reader response, diversity, life writing, and gender.
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