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Braving Home: Dispatches form the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales

Braving Home: Dispatches form the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales

Braving Home: Dispatches form the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other
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Braving Home: Dispatches form the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales

by Halpern, Jake (Author)

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0618155481
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9780618155484
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Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. First Thus. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.

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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.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Braving Home: Dispatches form the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales
Author
Halpern, Jake (Author)
Format/Binding
Softcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Quantity Available
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Edition
First Thus
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0618155481
ISBN 13
9780618155484
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication
Boston, Massachusetts
Date Published
2003
Keywords
Travel Memoirs, Traveling in the U.S.A

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