I hiked the Canadian Rockies and used the hostels for shelter when camping was impractical. Two years earlier, I had hitchhiked from my home in St. I managed a remote cabin shelter near the Columbia Icefields, in Jasper National Park. "In the summer of 1973, I was offered a position with the Canadian Youth Hostel Association as 'House Parent'.
His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. Langston Hughes, an African American author, vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey Here are 7 books that inspired us to travel or that made a great travel companion in the midst of it. Sometimes, this leaves a longing to experience another culture, a break in the norms, a tactile adventure in real life. Our imaginations surpass even what today's advanced cinematic technologies can offer. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves.An excellent book can take us on some incredible adventures. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.
Covers show some wear and some spotting in a very good dust jacket. Upon the death of her husband, Joel Spingarn, in 1939, Amy Spingarn was elected to finish out his term on the NAACP Board of Directors. Most sincerely, Langston New York 1957." The recipient, Amy Einstein Spingarn was a philanthropist, poet, and artist known especially for her paintings of prominent African-American cultural figures. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author with a full page inscription on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed especially for Amy Spingarn, another "life" of mine, for a friend who has helped to make life of ever joyous and cultural interest. First edition of Hughes' classic autobiography.
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