Braving Home
de Halpern, Jake
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Fine /Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618155481
- ISBN 13
- 9780618155484
- Librería
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Fitzwilliam , New Hampshire, United States
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Sinopsis
Funny, moving, and utterly unique, Braving Home introduces us to five unforgettable modern American pioneers. When Jake Halpern was a cub reporter, he became obsessed with stories about "some outlandish and often hellish place inhabited by a handful of stalwarts who refused to leave." His fellow reporters joked with him and nicknamed him the Bad Homes Correspondent. But the more he learned about these people, the more he was drawn to them. Determined to understand their fierce devotion to home, Halpern set off on a journey to five of the most punishing towns in America. Braving Home is his irresistible portrait of these hometowns and his friendships with their most loyal residents. In North Carolina, he meets a retired mill worker who single-handedly manned his hometown in the wake of a devastating flood. In Alaska, Halpern works for a spunky woman who runs a video store/tanning salon and delivers newspapers to an "indoor town" a lone snowbound high-rise at the foot of a glacier. At the base of a Hawaiian volcano, he stays with a hermit whose house, formally an inn, was surrounded by molten lava. In Malibu, nestled among the glitterati, a longtime "hillbilly" teaches him the traditions of firefighting. Finally, on a barrier island off the coast of Louisiana, a legendary storm rider tells of surviving hurricanes even if it means tying one's hair to a tree. Throughout his journey, Halpern explores the value of rootedness in an age when American society is more mobile than ever. Along the way, he discovers why no amount of floods, lava, wind, fire, or hurricanes can tug these unforgettable people from their roots.
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- Librería
- AardBooks (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- MAIN006388I
- Título
- Braving Home
- Autor
- Halpern, Jake
- Ilustrador
- photos
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine/Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0618155481
- ISBN 13
- 9780618155484
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003
- Palabras clave
- 12mo, 240 pp, y, signed, americana
- Catálogos del vendedor
- travel and exploration;
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