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Unusual Latin America (and Antarctica)

Unusual Latin America (and Antarctica)

Traveling on the Edge

by Alan Davis
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/07/2017

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This book is a collection of essays, each one a true story. Each describes the exciting experiences we've had as we travel, experience, and learn. Although I've visited every country on the continental Western Hemisphere, I've selected only the most interesting stories for this compendium. The stories describe our adventures to Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Guyana, Honduras, Suriname, Uruguay, and Antarctica. I hope you enjoy hearing our stories as much as we enjoyed living them and enjoy talking about them. I have an insatiable thirst for unusual travel. Let me explain what I mean by unusual travel. You are not likely to find me in a Parisian caf drinking coffee and eating baguettes with melted brie (although I have done so). I don't enjoy such a comfortable trip. On the other hand, you are also not likely to find me ice climbing on glaciers in Greenland (I would love to visit Greenland, but certainly not to ice climb). I don't enjoy such a dangerous trip; nor do I have the physical stamina. I do enjoy travel that resides somewhere between these two extremes: like traveling on a 3-passenger klotok on the rivers of Kalimantan, sleeping on the deck; like exploring Antarctica on a 50-person research vessel; like spending a month living with little electricity in Jos, Nigeria; like renting a car and spending a few weeks driving around Southern Africa; or like spending a night with former headhunters. Those of you who love taking cruises on 3,000+ passenger liners will likely find my kind of travel too dangerous; after all, it is possible to get very sick, or even die, doing the things I do, but for my wife and me the rewards of meeting new people, learning new cultures, eating new cuisines, seeing animals that few westerners ever see far outweigh the perils. Those of you who love to rock climb the Pyrenees, explore underground rivers within caves, bungee jump from helicopters, skydive, or climb K2, will likely find our kind of travel downright mundane.
ISBN:
9780996028370
9780996028370
Category:
Travel & holiday
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-07-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Scrub Oak Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
215.9x139.7mm
Alan Davis

British-born artist Alan Davis took off like a rocket after his humble beginnings at Marvel U.K. Continuing the collaboration with Alan Moore that saw Captain Britain become an enduring critical and fan favorite, the two co-created D.R. and Quinch.

Davis broke into U.S. comics with runs on Batman and the Outsiders and Detective Comics. Hired by Marvel U.S. in 1986, Davis launched Excalibur with Chris Claremont, and the book quickly became one of Marvel mutantdom's most unique and humorous titles. When Davis took over as writer, he continued many plot threads from his Captain Britain run. Davis also created the super-hero family ClanDestine, and wrote and drew the DC miniseries JLA: The Nail.

After a lengthy arc writing and drawing X-Men, Davis went on to work on the miniseries Killraven, Fantastic Four: The End and a ClanDestine revival. He has also illustrated writer Brian Michael Bendis' Avengers Prime and contributed to the status-quo-changing X-Men: Schism.

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