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Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bill Geist shares tales of eccentric individuals, such as the ninety-three-year-old pilot-paperboy who delivers to his far-flung subscribers by plane and the entrepreneur who finds success employing a sewer vacuum to rid Western ranchers of problematic prairie dogs.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Part food memoir and part picaresque travel narrative, The year of the goat marries the author's twin obsessions with food and all things goat and tells the story of one couple's fascinating journey in search of peace, pastures, and the perfect goat cheese.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"What happens when you swap the nine-to-five for two wheels and a journey of a lifetime? Terrified of the prospect of a life spent behind a desk, without challenge or excitement, Leon takes off to cross America on an overloaded bicycle packed with everything but common sense. Over five months and 6000 miles, he cycled from New York to Seattle and then on to the Mexican border, facing tornados, swollen river crossings, wild roaming buffalo and one...