Alaskan Lonely Hearts Club by Paul Gogarty

Alaskan Lonely Hearts Club by Paul Gogarty

VIGNETTES OF TRAVEL WRITING FROM AROUND THE GLOBE IN TWENTY SIX A - Z STORIES, PEOPLED WITH ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS--In Alaskan Lonely Hearts Club acclaimed travel writer Paul Gogarty shares his life on the road in 26 A-Z stories recording his very particular engagement with some highly eccentric characters. An eclectic range of destinations sees Gogarty skiing in Algeria, deep sea fishing in Kenya and attending a George Formby ukulele convention in Blackpool. Often hilarious, these tales range from an end-of-the-line bachelor auction in Alaska to attending the Henley-on-Todd Regatta in the parched dustbowl of Alice Springs. A passion for music is a thread running through several of the stories. In Caister Soul Weekender Gogarty checks into an East Anglian static caravan site for three days of dance, Red Bull and camaraderie. After hanging out with country wannabes in Nashville and attending the Delta Blues Festival in Greenville his car breaks down at the very crossroads where bluesman Robert Johnson reputedly sold his soul to the devil in return for guitar mastery. Nor is Gogarty afraid to sign up for the bizarre, whether visiting a homemade Stonehenge, taking an Arctic plunge protected only by swimming trunks, or learning the arcane art of healing and dowsing for hereditary diseases in Basingstoke. This collection showcases the diversity and possibilities of travel writing. More than anything else these tales underline a fascination with people and an openness to experience the world in all its diversity.

'Travel journo Paul Gogarty wrangles a career of eccentric characters and amusing situations into an A-to-Z of quirky humanityAlaskan Lonely Hearts Club is warm, easily digestible and often eye-opening.'--Wanderlust; 'Travel the globe in an A-Z of stories peopled by some of the planet's most eccentric characters, as told by travel journalist and TV presenter, Paul Gogarty. There are few writers so attuned to finding and telling a travel tale from the unexpected.' -- Sarah Barrell, National Geographic Traveller; 'I loved Paul's insights into places I’ll never visit, especially his wildlife encounters and chilly plunge into Arctic waters off Greenland.'—The People's Friend; 'Great travel writing takes the reader beyond their own borders. I luxuriate in the lines of this book because I couldn't have written them.' --Nicholas Crane

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Paul Gogarty is a contributor to the Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, and Sunday Times, and travel editor at Cosmopolitan magazine. Extracts from his first book The Water Road won two Guild of Travel Writers awards.

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ISBN 13	9781909930544
ISBN 10	1909930547
Title	Alaskan Lonely Hearts Club
Author	Paul Gogarty
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Signal Books Ltd
Year published	2017-10-01
Number of pages	154
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