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Literary journalist Orlean has been called "a kind of latter-day Tocqueville." In this unconventional travel book, she conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois--and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality. Readers will climb Mt. Fuji; play ball with Cuba's Little Leaguers; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone's favorite whale (of "Free Willy" fame); stay awhile in Midland, Texas, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it's known as "Horror High"; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world.--From publisher description.
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My Kind of Place: Travel Stories From A Woman Who's Been Everywhere
February 2, 2005, Thorndike Press
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My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
October 11, 2005, Random House Trade Paperbacks
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My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
September 28, 2004, Random House
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2004, Random House
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My kind of place: travel stories from a woman who's been everywhere / Susan Orlean.
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"As soon as the 2003 World Taxidermy Championships opened, the heads came rolling in the door."
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"In My Kind of Place, Susan Orlean takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in a uniquely witty and sophisticated travel book. In this collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois - and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality."--BOOK JACKET.
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