Travel Required: A Young Man's Journey to Adulthood - Couverture souple

Gibson, Dave

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1523970715 ISBN 13 : 9781523970711

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

In the summer of 1969, a very anxious, semi-adventurous, mostly naïve 16-year old boy convinced his parents to let him join a wheat harvest crew. The journey covered six states, 90-days, and 2,000 miles through the wheat fields, farming towns, and gravel roads of the mid-west and beyond. In that summer, the rest of America experienced the last episode of Star Trek, President Nixon’s drawdown of American troops in Vietnam, Senator Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick incident, the moon landing of Apollo 11, the conviction of Muhammad Ali for draft evasion, the Manson murders, the Miracle Mets, Woodstock, and Hurricane Camille. While these towering events were emblazing themselves in the American history books, Dave Gibson, oblivious to them all, was experiencing the most formative summer of his life. It was a summer of truck wrecks, snakes, dust, and diesel fumes. It was a summer of deception, fierce heat, fires, and small-time brushes with the law, of first kisses, first beers, and filthy showers. It was three months of non-stop effort, ne’er do wells, domineering farmers, ragged waitresses, and crazies. It was a front row seat on a deteriorating marriage, a friendship going south, a hand nearly coming off, and a boy growing up.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dave Gibson began his life in He Dog, South Dakota and grew up as the son of a US Forest Ranger and a pioneer prairie woman. He lived in South Dakota (three different times), Texas, California, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arizona before going to college in Montana. His “career path” has been exceedingly crooked and has included retail sales, forestry, freight loading, college teaching, college administration, and executive leadership in three different companies. Along the way he earned a bachelor’s, a master’s, and a doctorate in three different fields of study. Dave has been married to Kathi 42 years; they are blessed with three married children and eight grandchildren. These 15 people are the joy of his life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1523970715
• ISBN 13: 9781523970711
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 190
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible