Author: James Rumford
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054756256X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
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Ibn Battuta was the traveler of his age—the fourteenth century, a time before Columbus when many believed the world to be flat. Like Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta left behind an account of his own incredible journey from Morocco to China, from the steppes of Russia to the shores of Tanzania, some seventy-five thousand miles in all. James Rumford has retold Ibn Battuta’s story in words and pictures, adding the element of ancient Arab maps—maps as colorful and as evocative as a Persian miniature, as intricate and mysterious as a tiled Moroccan wall. Into this arabesque of pictures and maps, James Rumford has woven the story not just of a traveler in a world long gone but of a man on his journey through life.
Author: Jane Harvey-Berrick
Publisher: Harvey Berrick Publishing
ISBN: 9781912015573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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For two weeks a year, Aimee's life is the traveling carnival that visits her small town in Minnesota. She meets carnie boy Kestrel, and year after year, their friendship grows. But childhood can't last forever.
Author: Tom Weschler
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814334591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Tom Weschler spent more than ten years from the late 1960s through the 1970s in the Bob Seger camp, working as tour manager and photographer during Seger's hard-gigging, heavy-traveling, reputation-making early days. Weschler's behind-the-scenes photographs document the frustrations and triumphs of recording, performing, songwriting, and building the Seger empire before the breakthroughs of Live Bullet and Night Moves. Travelin' Man collects Weschler's early photos with additional images leading into the present. Weschler and award-winning music journalist Gary Graff annotate the images with Weschler's recollections of the events and Graff provides additional background on Seger's career in an introduction, timeline, and cast of characters section. Weschler's photographs and stories pull back the curtain on seldom-seen aspects of Seger's career, including time in the studio recording Mongrel, early struggles to get radio airplay, and small shows at schools and shopping malls. Weschler captures Seger's personality on stage and at home and reveals the colorful personalities of those people he worked and performed with, including Alice Cooper, Bruce Springsteen, Glenn Frey, and KISS. He takes readers inside Seger headquarters in Birmingham, Michigan, and practice space in Rochester, Michigan, introducing them to renowned manager Punch Andrews and the various members of Seger's bands. Weschler's photos feature highlights like Seger's show at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1976, his first gold record in 1977, the first meeting between Seger and Bruce Springsteen in 1978, and Seger's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. Travelin' Man also contains art from eight Seger album covers that Weschler designed, a foreword by John Mellencamp, an afterword by Kid Rock, and a comprehensive discography. Seger fans and readers interested in music and biography will enjoy the one of a kind story in Travelin' Man.
Author: Peter James
Publisher: W H Allen
ISBN: 9780352316066
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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Author: M. C. Beaton
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 9781472124456
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Author: Paul W Stansby
Publisher: Paul Warren Stansby
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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After starting Travelling Boy in 2019 I am evolving this piece with a another work I did back in 2015, around 170 k words long; the 2015 piece is not available as its too scrappy and it was the first thing I wrote and in need of a very serious rewrite to get it anywhere near flawless. This is about travelling, from a guy's early early days till he's twenty-five, then there's a twenty year break till he seriously gets travelling again. The guy now in his sixties has started to retell his stories to the local girls who frequent his local situated in urban-suburbia where he hangs out with his mate. Its a work in progress so currently free to read and has recently been getting some interest hence its reactivation
Author: Rodney Marshall
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326277367
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Drawing inspiration from the private detective and Western genres, as well as the cult 1960s series The Fugitive, Roger Marshall's mid-1980s drama Travelling Man was both critically acclaimed and commercially popular, drawing audiences of up to 13.2 million viewers. Ex-Drugs Squad detective and jailbird Alan Lomax is a fascinatingly flawed protagonist, but it is the setting of the canals and inland waterways of Britain which provide the unique charm of Travelling Man, offering the perfect backdrop for Lomax's nomadic quests. The canals also dictate the show's leisured pace. Avengers expert Rodney Marshall offers a critical guide to all thirteen episodes, exploring the scripts, direction, characterisation, acting and music. ""One thing about quiet waterways, you can hear footsteps.""
Author: William Hulbert
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490747907
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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I graduated from the University of Michigan and went directly into the U.S. Navy as the Korean War was still on. I served two years on a Destroyer as a Gunnery Officer. Upon discharge I went into the financial management business, where I spent most of my career. I walked out of the office at age 56, never to return and flew to Paris where I got an apartment and stayed for several months. I had been to Paris several times as a tourist, but this was an entirely new experience. I wrote about half of a political novel, but discovered that politics at home was over taking me and put it aside I have always traveled starting by going over the North Atlantic on a merchant ship carrying 750 horses to Poland at age 16. Iwent across the South Atlantic and up the West Coast of Africa at 17. I have been through the Panama Canal in both directions. When I sent up my personal information I forgot one important item. I have been married to one woman(forever young) since we were children. We have four sons which includes one set of twins. While I grew up in Washington DC. I went to the University of Michigan for my college education. I wrote stories for the college newspaper and helped start a humor magazine. I graduated into the Korean War and ended up as the gunnery officer on a destroyer. With my love of the water, I live on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay.
Author: Timothy B. Spears
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300070668
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Drawing on sources such as diaries, advice manuals and autobiographies, this work shows how travelling salesmen from the early-18th century to the 1920s shaped the customs of life on the road and helped to develop the modern consumer culture in the United States.
Author: Penelope A Riley
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1481715070
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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Meet Duckie Dan, a cute furry little duck, who has a desire to travel and have lots of friends. Dan is mischievous and sometimes his curiosity gets him into trouble on his journeys. An unscheduled trip inside a candy factory leaves him a little gooey. Dan is an only-child and seeks out others to join him and enjoy his life with granny. Grandma Hattie made the mistake of saying, There is always room for one more!
