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Bezig met laden... Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Localesdoor Jake Halpern
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Funny, moving, and utterly unique, Braving Home introduces us to five unforgettable modern American pioneers. When Jake Halpern was a cub reporter, he became obsessed with stories about "some outlandish and often hellish place inhabited by a handful of stalwarts who refused to leave." His fellow reporters joked with him and nicknamed him the Bad Homes Correspondent. But the more he learned about these people, the more he was drawn to them. Determined to understand their fierce devotion to home, Halpern set off on a journey to five of the most punishing towns in America. Braving Home is his irresistible portrait of these hometowns and his friendships with their most loyal residents. In North Carolina, he meets a retired mill worker who single-handedly manned his hometown in the wake of a devastating flood. In Alaska, Halpern works for a spunky woman who runs a video store/tanning salon and delivers newspapers to an "indoor town" - a lone snowbound high-rise at the foot of a glacier. At the base of a Hawaiian volcano, he stays with a hermit whose house, formally an inn, was surrounded by molten lava. In Malibu, nestled among the glitterati, a longtime "hillbilly" teaches him the traditions of firefighting. Finally, on a barrier island off the coast of Louisiana, a legendary storm rider tells of surviving hurricanes - even if it means tying one's hair to a tree. Throughout his journey, Halpern explores the value of rootedness in an age when American society is more mobile than ever. Along the way, he discovers why no amount of floods, lava, wind, fire, or hurricanes can tug these unforgettable people from their roots. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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chapters: The Underwater Town: Princeville, North carolina / Tower of the Arctic: Whittier, Alaska / The Lava-Side Inn: Royal Gardens Subdivision, Hawaii / Canyon of the Firefighting Hillbillies: Malibu, California / Island of the Storm Riders: Grand Isle, Louisiana
Halpern's book deals with some nice places to visit and the rare few persons who actually would want to live there, thank you very much...regardless of periodic and/or unpredictable ravages of water, snow, lava, fire, wind or what have you. It was interesting to read not only the descriptions of these sometimes isolated and often perilous places, but also the mini-biographies of individuals who choose to keep homes in them...in spite of (or for some, perhaps, because of) the isolation and danger. ( )