Longitude and Latitude, with Attitude

2017-10-20

Author : Rufus McGaugh
Release : 2017-10-20
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 724/5 ( reviews)

Book Synopsis Longitude and Latitude, with Attitude by : Rufus McGaugh

Download or read book Longitude and Latitude, with Attitude written by Rufus McGaugh. This book was released on 2017-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rufus McGaugh knew early on that he wanted to see the world-all of it. And, later on, he did just that.Longitude and Latitude, with Attitude chronicles Rufus's 49 years of travels around the globe to every country in the world. It relates his experiences, both harrowing and humorous, in entertaining and amusing (sometimes even instructive!) vignettes.Rufus, a Vietnam vet who was awarded the Purple Heart in 1970, became a Vietnam vet against the war, got a college degree, and taught social studies at Brownell Middle School in the affluent Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe for 39 years. During that time-and before and after-he spent his summers, vacations, and retirement fulfilling a life-long dream to travel to every corner of the Earth. He has visited countries near and far, well known and obscure (including the closed regimes of North Korea and Libya). He has met interesting people, seen fascinating sights, and observed unusual events.He has been hassled by the authorities in Russia (twice in one day). He was arrested-and later stalked by a leopard-in Zimbabwe. He met Miss America (well, Miss South Carolina) in Vietnam, outfoxed (or so he thought) a tailor in Hong Kong, and broke both arms bicycling in Cuba.Longitude and Latitude, with Attitude is the unpretentious, often comic, frequently informative chronicle of these and other adventures and misadventures he experienced on his journeys. Other wanderers like him-and armchair travelers everywhere-will be captivated by it. The lively writing is supplemented by more than 50 pictures that inveterate photographer Rufus has taken in the course of his trips.

Longitudes and Attitudes

2002-09-11 Political Science

Author : Thomas L. Friedman
Release : 2002-09-11
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 346/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Longitudes and Attitudes by : Thomas L. Friedman

Download or read book Longitudes and Attitudes written by Thomas L. Friedman. This book was released on 2002-09-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11, 2001--before, during and after . As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman is in a unique position to interpret the world for American readers. Twice a week, Friedman's celebrated commentary provides the most trenchant, pithy,and illuminating perspective in journalism. Longitudes and Attitudes contains the columns Friedman has published about the most momentous news story of our time, as well as a diary of his experiences and reactions during this period of crisis. As the author writes, the book is "not meant to be a comprehensive study of September 11 and all the factors that went into it. Rather, my hope is that it will constitute a 'word album' that captures and preserves the raw, unpolished, emotional and analytical responses that illustrate how I, and others, felt as we tried to grapple with September and its aftermath, as they were unfolding." Readers have repeatedly said that Friedman has expressed the essence of their own feelings, helping them not only by explaining who "they" are, but also by reassuring us about who "we" are. More than any other journalist writing, Friedman gives voice to America's awakening sense of its role in a changed world.

The Latitude, Longitude, and Attitude of a Life

2022 Flight attendants

Author : Joan Davis Ball
Release : 2022
Genre : Flight attendants
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis The Latitude, Longitude, and Attitude of a Life by : Joan Davis Ball

Download or read book The Latitude, Longitude, and Attitude of a Life written by Joan Davis Ball. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latitude

2002 History

Author : William Eugene Carter
Release : 2002
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Latitude by : William Eugene Carter

Download or read book Latitude written by William Eugene Carter. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nineteenth-century European astronomers tried for decades to explain the variations in their careful astronomical observations. But where the best minds in Europe failed, an intellectual upstart from America succeeded. In 1891 Seth Carlo Chandler Jr., an actuary for a Boston insurance company with no formal education in astronomy, shocked the international scientific community by announcing that he had solved the problem and that an inexpensive instrument he had designed could detect the variation. Another American, Simon Newcomb, compounded the Europeans' embarrassment. Working at the U.S. Naval Observatory Newcomb validated Chandler's findings and reconciled the difference between his observations and accepted theory." "Chandler's discovery, dubbed "the Chandler Wobble," had profound significance to astronomers of the time and later played an important role in space exploration and the development of the revolutionary Global Positioning System (GPS). The authors, a father-daughter team of scientists, tell the story of Chandler's life and scientific works with the aid of private correspondence, documents, and family photographs. In recounting both the historical and dramatic human aspects of the story, they help readers appreciate how Chandler's achievements gave America credibility in the world of serious scientific research."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

NASA Reference Publication

1977 Astronautics

Author :
Release : 1977
Genre : Astronautics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis NASA Reference Publication by :

Download or read book NASA Reference Publication written by . This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Popular eBooks

Longitude and Latitude, with Attitude

Longitudes and Attitudes

The Latitude, Longitude, and Attitude of a Life

Latitude

NASA Reference Publication

You may also like...