Ben Batchelder

Borderlands USA

or, How to Protect the Country by Car

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"When 9/11 struck, Ben Batchelder was living overseas. Dumbfounded, he wondered: How could he help? After leaving his marriage and cozy corporate career, he returns to the U.S. with an outlandish plan: to protect the country by car, driving a silver-plated VW Beetle as close to the remote borders as possible, without getting arrested. Along the way he gets to know his beloved country again and meets many unheralded borderlanders, whose stories of hard work, perseverance, and patriotic hope go well beyond the usual headlines. Instead, he finds that the nation's edges reveal much about its core - and in the process comes home to an overwhelming sense of gratitude."--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mindfast Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780991337200
• ISBN-10: 0991337204
• Artikelnr.: 57988473

Autorenporträt

Ben Batchelder has traveled extensively on American and Brazilian backroads. Nothing in his background, from a degree in Visual & Environmental Studies at Harvard to an MBA from Wharton, adequately prepared him for the experiences. Nevertheless he has published two books on his New World journeys, that map the inner and exterior geographies of meaningful travel, with plans for more. Having grown up in Cambridge, Mass., he currently leads a bi-hemispheric life, as a mountain man in the hills of Minas Gerais, Brazil who comes down to the sea at Miami Beach, Florida. For more, visit www.benbatchelder.com.