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Getting to Grey Owl: Journeys on Four Continents
Kurt Caswell
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Description for Getting to Grey Owl: Journeys on Four Continents
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 371.
Writer, teacher, and adventurer Kurt Caswell has spent his adult life canoeing, hiking, and pedaling his way toward a deeper understanding of our vast and varied world. Getting to Grey Owl: Journeys on Four Continents chronicles over twenty years of Caswell's travels as he buys a rug in Morocco, rides a riverboat in China, attends a bullfight in Spain, climbs four mountains in the United Kingdom, and backpacks a challenging route through Iceland's wild Hornstrandir Peninsula. Writing in the tradition of such visionary nomads as Hermann Hesse, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and ... Read more
Writer, teacher, and adventurer Kurt Caswell has spent his adult life canoeing, hiking, and pedaling his way toward a deeper understanding of our vast and varied world. Getting to Grey Owl: Journeys on Four Continents chronicles over twenty years of Caswell's travels as he buys a rug in Morocco, rides a riverboat in China, attends a bullfight in Spain, climbs four mountains in the United Kingdom, and backpacks a challenging route through Iceland's wild Hornstrandir Peninsula. Writing in the tradition of such visionary nomads as Hermann Hesse, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Trinity University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
San Antonio, United States
ISBN
9781595342614
SKU
V9781595342614
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99-15
About Kurt Caswell
Kurt Caswellis a writer and professor of creative writing and literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, where he teaches intensive field courses on writing and leadership. His books includeIceland Summer,Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog,Getting to Grey Owl: Journeys on Four Continents,In the Sun's House: My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation, andAn Inside ... Read more
Reviews for Getting to Grey Owl: Journeys on Four Continents
"Kurt Caswell is an ideal traveling partner: humane, knowledgeable, and profoundly empathetic. These essays take you from Japan to Morocco to the American West, among other places, and there's not one that doesn't leave you feeling both smarter and more curious. Anyone who loves travel, whether literal or literary, will be enriched and moved by this fine book."-Tom Bissell, author ... Read more