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The Black Penguin: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog

Autor Andrew Evans
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 2018
As an awkward gay kid—bullied, bored, and eventually ejected from the Mormon Church—Andrew Evans escaped into the glossy pages of National Geographic and the wide promise of the world atlas. The Black Penguin chronicles his journey riding public transportation toward his ultimate goal: Antarctica. Part memoir, part travel tale, and part love story, with each new mile comes laughter, pain, unexpected friendships, true weirdness, and hair-raising moments that eventually lead to a singular discovery on a remote beach at the bottom of the world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299311445
ISBN-10: 0299311449
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 1 b-w photo, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog


Recenzii

"The exterior and interior landscapes are meticulously described, moving, and often totally unexpected. Compulsive reading." —Tim Cahill, author of A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg

"A traveler of boundless curiosity and compassion, Evans spins a globe-trotting tale of daring and discovery. His expedition proves that our inner and outward journeys can take us everywhere we need to go, from happiness at home to elation at the ends of the Earth." —George W. Stone, editor in chief, National Geographic Traveler

"I swear on a stack of National Geographic magazines that few writers possess a passion for travel and life matched by their storytelling talents. I love Andrew Evans's winning combination of both." —Patricia Schultz author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die

"The fascination of The Black Penguin lies in the difficulties Evans has undertaken by choosing to travel only by bus all the way 12,000 miles through the Southern USA, Central America and South America. . . . The long bus ride also provides the

"Evans interweaves three urgent personal quests: his expedition, his effort to convince his family to accept his homosexuality, and his struggle for the right to marry the man he loved. . . . The Black Penguin relays the ups and downs of that jou

Notă biografică

Andrew Evans has completed more than forty assignments for National Geographic, reporting from all seven continents. He is the author of the Bradt travel guides Iceland and Ukraine and lives in Washington, DC.

Cuprins

Preface                                                
1 Cold Pitch                      
2 Sandy Cay               
3 Sixteenth and M                   
4 Ohio            
5 Virginia                    
6 Two Letters              
7 Atlanta                     
8 Ethel, Doris, and Mabel                   
9 Dixie            
10 Light Blue              
11 Going Home                      
12 The Shape of the Earth                  
13 Telmex                  
14 Hannah                  
15 Utah                       
16 Chicken Bus                      
17 A Place without Guns                    
18 England                 
19 Milkman                
20 Panama                  
21 Through the Plexiglass                   
22 Death in Colombia             
23 Close Call              
24 Court of Love                    
25 Middle Earth                      
26 Bananas                 
27 Medzhybizh                       
28 A Thousand Miles of Sand            
29 The Laws of Physics                      
30 Rainy Season                     
31 Argentina               
32 Marching as to War            
33 The End of the World     
34 Pionero               
35 The Drake              
36 Antarctica              
37 The Black Penguin             
Epilogue                       
Acknowledgments                  
Transportation from Washington, DC, to Antarctica

Descriere

An outcast gay Mormon travels from his Washington, DC, home to Antarctica—by bus.