Trail Mix

Trail Mix

Trail Mix

David B. Bowes / David BBowes

26,19 €
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Editorial:
AuthorHouse
Año de edición:
2009
Materia
Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9781438925752
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Along the trail in Trail Mix we’ll witness a night launch of Navy jets from a nuclear aircraft carrier..... boogie with an integrated throng at a James Brown concert.....chase President Lyndon Johnson around the world in five days.....spike a can of Dinty Moore beef stew with expensive French wine..... hang with preservationists as they save an architectural jewel from demolition.....celebrate a Glorious Fourth with Italian-American fireworks families.....visit terminally ill patients and their pets at the world’s first hospice.....trace the life of a mushroom from incubation in chicken shit to doom on a dinner plate.....stalk Elizabethan accents among the watermen on Chesapeake Bay’s Tangier Island..... barnstorm on Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s campaign plane with twistmeister Chubby Checker..... perch on a rail in the St. Louis Zoo’s bird house with ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson.....eat tear gas in Chicago with war protestors at the Democratic National Convention.....savor tea and gossip on Embassy Row with GOP doyenne Alice Roosevelt Longworth.....play tennis with comedienne Phyllis Diller and her shiny, new orthodontics.....judge a BBQ festival with good ole boys in North Carolina’s mountains.....share beans and a unisex bucket with co-ed strangers on an Outward Bound voyage.....ponder King Henry VIII’s 'girlfriends' with a cardinal of the Catholic church.....strip naked for volleyball and Robert’s Rules of Order in a nudist colony. And as our stuff-driven culture chants without ceasing, much, much more.

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    Along the trail in Trail Mix we’ll witness a night launch of Navy jets from a nuclear aircraft carrier..... boogie with an integrated throng at a James Brown concert.....chase President Lyndon Johnson around the world in five days.....spike a can of Dinty Moore beef stew with expensive French wine..... hang with preservationists as they save an architectural jewel from demoliti...