Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey
by Gavin Young
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John_Vaughan A going there and a coming back - a pair of exciting reads on improbable transports, trips and peoples.
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Halfway Around the World tells two tales in parallel. The first is the official story, of Mr. Young’s adventures on and off the high seas as he tried to make his way by cargo boat, launch, and ferry from Piraeus to Canton. The second story (just as engrossing) is about his adventures (almost as hazardous) with the travel book as a literary form. The two intertwine to make a vivid, flawed, show more revealing book whose botches and lacunae are as interesting as its flights of brilliance. show less
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- Nonfiction, Travel, General Nonfiction, Anthropology, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 910.4 — History & geography Geography & travel modified standard subdivisions of Geography and travel Pirates & Shipwrecks
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- G465 .Y66 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Geography (General) Special voyages and travels
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