Crossing the Date Line: Adventures of a Traveling Geologist - Couverture souple

Sollo, Mr. John P

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 107695992X ISBN 13 : 9781076959928

Editeur : Independently published, 2014

Synopsis

Crossing the Date Line is a colorful, romp through 16 countries, from Argentina to Alaska, from Algeria to New Zealand. John Sollo has weaved together real-life adventure with a little geology, a touch of history, a bit of humor and a fascinating assortment of some unforgettable characters. His book describes living and working in foreign countries and dealing with the various cultures, habits, languages and customs. The adventure takes the reader to a bat-invested tunnel in Sikkim high in the Himalaya, to a steamy Indonesian jungle where a 30-foot-long python visited the work camp, to the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea where the author worked alongside natives with bones in their noses. He drove through a Siberian blizzard in Korea, was chased by a mama grizzly in the wilds of Alaska, ran for his life from a pack of dogs in Algeria and was overrun by crickets while living in a shed-like building on the banks of the Narmada River in central India. He ate monkey and snake meat fresh from the Laotian jungle and had a heart-stopping moment as the helicopter he was riding in malfunctioned one foggy day in Alaska.The Red City Review gave it 5 Stars and wrote, “This book captures the reader’s attention immediately, before the book even really begins, as John attempts to catch a flight while stuck in holiday traffic frustrated to the point where he almost leaves his ride to walk to the airport. From then on, the action and entertainment doesn’t stop. The pictures that accompany the stories throughout the work provide even further insight into the voyages, and provide faces to the names to those he knew and those he met. Crossing the Date Line is one of those can’t-put-down reads, and one that will stick with the reader as they go about their daily lives. With stories that most wouldn’t be able to achieve even if they were given three separate lifetimes, John Sollo provides readers the insight into how we all wish we could live, by living his own singular life in such a fantastic fashion.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 107695992X
• ISBN 13: 9781076959928
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg