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An Amateur's Guide to the Planet: Twelve Adventure Journeys and Lessons for the Contemporary United States [Paperback]

Jeannette Belliveau (Author)
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  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Beau Monde Press (Oct 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0965234444
  • ISBN-13: 978-0965234443
  • Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,491,633 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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For travel tips, recommended travelnarratives, reviews of Nat. Geographic videos, and information on Jeannette's speaking engagements, please visit us at http://www.jewishtraveler.com/amateur.html

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Hello to thinking travelers and adventurous readers!
My book is designed to appeal to travelers, geographers,sailors, adventurous women, and people curious about issues of human geography ranging from the African diaspora to environmental ethics and even etiquette! I'm meeting many readers at a mini-seminar on adventure travel that I conduct, and we have discussions on culturally sensitive travel and similar issues that amaze bookstore owners in terms of how PHILOSOPHICAL this book event becomes! Curious to know more? Send an e-mail to me at Beau Monde Press, and we'll send back the table of contents & web page address.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 'Amateur's Guide' has heart 21 Oct 1997
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In an era of travel books describing epic journeys and heroic and heroic adventures, it isn't easy to write something different. Belliveau's stories are very well documented and still quite readable. "We roam the globe yet lack insight into what we see," she writes, and reminds us to look with our hearts.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing and enchanting 1 Sep 1997
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Combines refreshingly direct personal traveldiaries with a journalist's dedication to background research. A sense of romance and adventure informs the book. Everywhere she goes, Belliveau gets to know ordinary people. Jon Lehman, Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger
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5.0 out of 5 stars In the mark of an excellent travel narrative, the reader ... 2 July 1997
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... is taken beyond pure experience and intophilosophy. Location details are told with extraordinary flair, but it is the stories about the people that are the most memorable parts of this book. Jeannette Belliveau has taken obvious care to visit some of the world's most exotic places and to bring them to a readership who adventures mostly from the armchair. She has done a great service in providing this book. Amy Cooper, of Small Press magazine
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5.0 out of 5 stars Reflections on the questions raised by travel
This unusual book is part travelogue and partsocial commentary. The descriptions of Belliveau's journeys are personal, detailed and engaging. Read more
Published on 2 July 1997
5.0 out of 5 stars An expert departure
Former Washington Post staffer Jeannette Belliveau takes uson 12 sojourns to distant lands in a lively, graphics-juiced volume that goes where few travel writers dare to tread:... Read more
Published on 19 Mar 1997
5.0 out of 5 stars An expert departure
Former Washington Post staffer Jeannette Belliveau takes uson 12 sojourns to distant lands in a lively, graphics-juiced volume that goes where few travel writers dare to tread:... Read more
Published on 19 Mar 1997
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a fascinating book
Well worth picking up for random browsing, perhaps onyour next vacation, or before. If it doesn't give you pause to think, even for a moment, then at least it will furnish a store... Read more
Published on 11 Feb 1997
5.0 out of 5 stars Not the ordinary travel guide book
Although this book is for serious travelers who want tounderstand cultures and concepts, it's written in an entertaining, conversational style, sprikled with funny quotes from... Read more
Published on 5 Jan 1997
5.0 out of 5 stars 'Amateur's Guide' travel book a gem
I was delighted the other day to buy a book that I recommendwithout reservation: An Amateur's Guide to the PLanet. Read more
Published on 5 Dec 1996
5.0 out of 5 stars Much more and much better than a travel book
An Amateur's Guide to the Planet, so filled withdaring but insightful conclusions, is much more and much better than a travel book. Read more
Published on 31 Oct 1996
5.0 out of 5 stars Unusual exotic travel book
Jeannette Belliveau has written what could be one ofthe most exciting and interesting books you'll see this year. Read more
Published on 31 Oct 1996
5.0 out of 5 stars A treat for the senses
"Iron Rooster"-class travel essays that allow the reader tosee, touch, even smell some of the planet's most exotic locales. Read more
Published on 31 Oct 1996
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