Author: Louis Di Eugenio
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728318661
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 443
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Mark Del Savio is deployed to Vietnam ten days after marrying the beautiful but capricious Serena. The forced separation immediately after the nuptials puts an immediate strain on their relationship. Serena miscarries their child early on in Mark’s tour, which begins a downward spiral in their marriage. Mark gets run over by a US Army truck during the Tet Offensive of 1968 while working in the Long Binh Ammunition Depot, has a near-death experience, and begins to cope with life in a hedonistic fashion. This point of demarcation has him living life on the edge as if each day were his last and as one endless adventure. The war itself is simply a backdrop to this story that sometimes interrupts with rocket attacks, massive explosions, and the death of fellow soldiers. When he faces the reality of returning home, it turns out to be his biggest challenge of all.
Author: Motorcycle Vagabonds
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781310800450
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Expanding the Horizon!Part two of our journey around the world takes us to places off the beaten track through Southeast Asia, over the world's highest passes to the stunning high altitude mountain scenery of the Himalayas and through sensitive countries such as Pakistan, Iran and Iraq.Striking a balance between the courage to stand up for our own beliefs and respect for other cultures and customs on the other hand is often frustratingly difficult. However, together with many other challenges it also determines our "inner journey" simultaneously.Many times the success of our world trip is at a tipping point and to "grit our teeth and hold out" becomes a familiar phrase.Among manifold insights into our life "on the road", we also don't ignore the last major challenge: Our return and social-reintegration which consumes a lot of our strength and energy.
Author: Avishek Ray
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000412407
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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This book discusses the epistemic foundation of the heuristic construct ‘vagabond’ and the convergence between the politics of itinerancy and that of dissent in the context of South Asia. It describes the fraught relationship between ‘native’ itinerant practices and techniques of governmentality which have furnished different categorizations and taxonomies of mobility. The book demonstrates the historical seismic breaks – from the Orientalist to the post-Orientalist, from the premodern to the modern, and from the colonial to the post-colonial – in the representation of the vagabond in the juridico-political imagination, in historiography and cultural articulation. For instance, the drunk European sailor, the quasi-religious mendicant, and the helpless famine refugee have all been referred to as ‘vagabonds’ in the colonial archive. This book examines the histories and conditions behind these conceptual overlaps, as well as the uncanny associations among categories that uneasily coexist and mirror each other as subsets of a vast range of phenomena, which may loosely be called ‘vagabond(age)’. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of literature, cultural studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, history, migration studies, sociology, and South Asia studies.
Author: Edmund Candler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Author: Thomas J. Barnes
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9780738826981
Category : Diplomats
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This dramatic memoir, enhanced with multiple images of Southeast Asian faces, covers the author's professional career in the Foreign Service, and with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the International Catholic Migration Commission. The initial portion covers turbulence in three Southeast Asian nations: Thailand, Laos, and wartime Vietnam. Conversant in the languages of all three countries, the author plunges the reader deeply into the local scene. The book next treats major refugee crises in which the author was involved during the last quarter of the 20th Century. They include Indochinese asylum seekers scattered around the Southeast Asian littoral, Somali fleeing the Ogaden, and Afghans crowding into Pakistan and Iran. During the author's residence in ten countries, he visited some eighty others. Descriptions of a few of these official missions will hopefully induce the reader to consult his atlas for exotic locations like Colomancagua in Honduras, Bassikounou in Mauritania, and Mannar in Sri Lanka. The book concludes with a perspective, lightened with the humor that pervades the narrative, on the controversial American involvement in Vietnam.
Author: Edmund Candler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Author: Mik Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781631321405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The author and his new German wife packed their backpacks and, with no money, on a beautiful summer day, set out on the road with no goal or purpose and with little knowledge of what lie ahead. Together they blazed a trail from Europe to India that a few years later would become known as The Hippie Trail. Hitch-hiking from Frankfurt, through Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Rangoon, Bangkok, Malaysia, Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, they led a life filled with meeting incredible people, experiencing strange cultures, humorous incidents, dangerous adventures, and desperate circumstances, aimlessly wandering on the road and in the streets of Europe and Asia until it all led back to that search for meaning, leading to a desperate climax in the deserts of Rajasthan.
Author: Rolf Potts
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593497473
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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“Thought-provoking, encouraging, and inspiring” (Gretchen Rubin) reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily lives—from the iconoclastic travel writer, scholar, and author of Vagabonding For readers who dream of travel, yearn to get back out on the road, or want to enrich a journey they’re currently on, The Vagabond’s Way explores and celebrates the life-altering essence of travel all year long. Each day of the year features a meditation on an aspect of the journey, anchored by words of wisdom from a variety of thinkers—from Stoic philosopher Seneca and poet Maya Angelou to Trappist monk Thomas Merton and Grover from Sesame Street. Iconoclastic travel writer and scholar Rolf Potts embraces the ragged-edged, harder-to-quantify aspects of travel that inevitably change travelers’ lives for the better in unexpected ways. The book’s various sections mirror the phases of a trip, including • dreaming and planning the journey: “All life-affecting journeys—and the unexpected wonders they promise—become real the moment you decide they will happen.” • embracing the rhythms of the journey: “The most poignant experiences on the road occur in those quiet moments when we recognize beauty in the ordinary.” • finding richer travel experiences: “Developing an instinct to venture beyond the obvious on the road allows you to see places as mysteries to be investigated.” • expanding your comfort zone: “No moment of instant gratification can compare to savoring an experience that has been earned by enduring the adversity that comes with it.” The Vagabond’s Way encourages you to sustain the mindset of a journey, even when you aren’t able to travel, and affirms that travel is as much a way of being as it is an act of movement.
Author: Vago Damitio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939827067
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Morocco was almost an impulse for me and yet somehow, I've been here more than four years - one thing for sure, it's NOT My Morocco. This is a chronicle of how much this country baffles, confuses and makes me crazy. While Morocco is certainly my wife's country - it will never be mine and for that, I'm incredibly grateful.
Author: Major T Benton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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You are invited to ride along and join the journey into the heart and soul of a Vietnam Veteran who paints a raw portrait of the lessons and influences in his life. It's not always a pretty picture, but is a compellingly honest portrayal of a lifetime search for clarity and understanding.Travel with the author as he roams from Virginia to Southeast Asia, Maine, Massachusetts, Canada, the Florida Keys, New Mexico and eventually México itself. Within this very personal and revealing book are travel stories, character sketches and vignettes, essays, poems, journal entries, an insider's look at life in the circus, tales of Key West and the Florida Keys, mesmerizing experiences with dolphins, love notes, the last days of a loved one's life, and articles on writing and painting.
