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by: Pam Houston
List Price: $20.95Amazon.com's Price: $12.07 You Save: $8.88 (42%)Prices subject to change.
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780743406338
ISBN: 0743406338
Label: Washington Square Press
Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: October 01, 2000
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Release Date: October 03, 2000
Sales Rank: 202327
Studio: Washington Square Press
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The road I've taken these five years has been a long and twisted one, writes Pam Houston in the first piece of this stirring collection. That journey takes the acclaimed author of Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat across five continents, through forty whitewater rivers, over three thousand miles of backcountry hiking trails, on more than four hundred planes. But whatever her destination -- the Alaskan outback or the mountains of Bhutan -- these are the starting points for her personal emotional journey.
Through her stories we meet some good dogs, a few good men, and the occasional grizzly. Ultimately, Houston's adventures -- and her clear-eyed reflections upon them -- prove what she has always suspected: fiction has nothing on real life.
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Rating:  - Varied Collection
This book is a collection of essays by outdoors writer Pam Houston. The essays included range from backwoods adventures in Alaska and Pennsylvania, travel narratives from Bolivia to Bhutan, as well as personal analyses on self-image and childhood memoir. There are stories about lovers, an ex-husband, and lots of dogs.
I almost put the book down as soon as I started it--oh no, I thought--not a book of dog stories! Being allergic to dogs, I can't be a dog person, so I have very little ... Read More
Rating: - not like her fiction, but still worth reading
"Cowboys are my weakness" is one of my favorites of all time...this book just doesn't show the same sparkle. I gave it 3 stars because Pam Houston not at her best is still better then many predictable novelists (the romance novels and thrillers that are a dime a dozen).
Some of the descriptions seemed dry and uninspired, but overall makes you wish you could be there. Of course there is a self-centered theme throughout. At first it was a little annoying, but she certinally does have a reason to ... Read More
Rating:  - If you've read her before, you'll like this
A rambling collection of essays that indeed reveal much about the author of her quirky books. Provides insight into who she is, why she would risk life and limb just to prove a point, how she defines 'home,' her relationships with men and dogs and trucks...
Goes down easy.
Rating:  - The Title Says it All
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, and oh, did I forget ME?
Rating: - Inspirational writing from a very independent woman
Houston's description of the Ardeche region in France in "Waves Every Color of Harvest" was enough to make me hail the next taxi to the airport - and I HATE to fly. This collection of essays, of which many have already appeared in various popular publications, covers the gamut from adventure travel to self-analysis to the love of a good dog. Read this if you're stuck at your boring 9-5 desk and dream of life on the open road. And then rejoice in the convenience of indoor plumbing.
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