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Banks, Russell, 1940-2023, author.
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Banks, Russell, 1940- -- Travel.
Voyages and travels.
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Voyager : travel wri...
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Voyager : travel writings / Russell Banks.
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Banks, Russell, 1940-2023, author.
New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, c2016.
Subjects
Banks, Russell, 1940- -- Travel.
Voyages and travels.
ISBN:
9780061857676 (hardcover) :
Description:
272 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Voyager -- Pilgrim's regress -- Primal dreams -- House of slaves -- The last birds of paradise -- Innocents abroad -- Last days feeding frenzy -- The wrong stuff -- Fox and whale, priest and angel -- Old goat.
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The award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays. Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. In this compelling anthology, he writes that since childhood he has "longed for escape, for rejuvenation, for wealth untold, for erotic and narcotic and sybaritic fresh starts, for high romance, mystery and intrigue." The longing for escape has taken him from the "bright green islands and turquoise seas" of the Caribbean to peaks in the Himalayas, the Andes, and beyond. Banks shares highlights from his travels: interviewing Fidel Castro in Cuba; motoring to a hippie reunion with college friends in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; eloping to Edinburgh to marry his fourth wife, Chase; driving a sunset-orange metallic Hummer down Alaska's Seward Highway. In each of these remarkable essays, Banks considers his life and the world. In Everglades National Park, he traces his own timeline: "I keep going back, and with increasing clarity I see more of the place and more of my past selves. And more of the past of the planet as well." Recalling his trips to the Caribbean in the title essay, Banks dissects his relationships with the four women who would become his wives. In the Himalayas, he embarks on a different quest: "One climbs a mountain, not to conquer it, but to be lifted like this away from the earth up into the sky," he explains. Pensive, frank, beautiful, and engaging, this book brings together the social, the personal, and the historical, opening a path into the heart and soul of this revered writer.--Adapted from dust jacket.
Now in his mid-seventies, Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. In this compelling anthology, he writes of his longing for escape has taken him from the around the world. Here he shares highlights from his travels, traces his own timeline, and dissects his relationships with the four women who would become his wives. In doing so he brings together the social, the personal, and the historical.
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Hawaii Kai Public Library
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910.4 Ba
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Language, Literature & History
910.4 Ba
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Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
910.4 Banks
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Kailua-Kona Public Library
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910.4 Ba
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Kihei Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
910.4 Ba
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Koloa P/S Library
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910.4 Ba
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07/09/2024
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Makawao Public Library
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Mililani Public Library
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07/03/2024
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