Back of Beyond: Travels to the Wild Places of Earth

✍ Scribed by Yeadon, David

• Book ID: 107979732
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: Travel 500; Back of Beyond 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780061976612

✦ Synopsis

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Takes readers to some of the last unspoiled places on Earth, detailing the author's experiences searching for monkeys and turtles in the jungles of Costa Rica, hunting wild boar in Iran, exploring the Sahara, and more.

From Library Journal

This British writer now living in the United States has compiled a number of guidebooks. Here he collects 20 accounts of his visits to mostly remote destinations on four continents. He writes of cockfighting in Haiti, train rides in India and China, a camel journey in Morocco, and some jungle hiking adventures. He tells a good story and is particularly adept at capturing the dialog of interesting people he meets along the way. Included are Yeadon's own pen-and-ink sketches. The only element lacking is some kind of unifying theme or focus; no attempt is made to link these accounts. Skillful travel writing suitable for larger travel collections.
- Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland
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