An Amateur's Guide to the Planet: Twelve Adventure Journeys and Lessons for the Contemporary United States - Softcover

Belliveau, Jeannette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965234444 ISBN 13: 9780965234443

Publisher: Beau Monde Pr, 1996

Synopsis

After a decade of travel on six continents, Jeannette Belliveau attempts to track down answers raised by her adventures and tries to understand what the rest of the planet can teach the United States

About this title

From the Publisher:

An Amateur's Guide to the Planet will appeal to thinking travelers and adventurous readers. We're so proud of this title that we've nominated it for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, the Rea Nonfiction Award, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize, the Lionel Gelber Prize and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction.

From the Author:

I travel as an "amateur," a non-professional. I travel like many regular people, and not as a soldier, diplomat, foreign correspondent or scholar. Thus travel left me with a decade's-worth of lingering questions about the extraordinary experiences I'd had. To write An Amateur's Guide, I read 600 books and periodicals to better understand what I'd seen overseas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beau Monde Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0965234444
• ISBN 13: 9780965234443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264