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Chargement... Journey to the Edge of the World (2009)par Billy Connolly
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Just finished reading “Journey to the Edge of the World” and really enjoyed it. Famous Scottish comedian Billy Connolly embarks on his Canadian voyage to fulfill his childhood dreams of seeing the Northwest Passage and being a cowboy for a day in British Columbia. He takes us from fishing towns of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland, through freezing and windswept Nunavut Province and along the famous Northwest Passage, then onto vast Northwest Territories and gold-rush Yukon and finally to the wild and tranquil British Columbia. During his trip, apart from seeing some tourist attractions, he also fishes for salmon, watches the bears, works as a lumberjack, gets a claim with his own name on it, takes part in the rituals of the natives and helps local cowboys rounding up a herd of cattle. But more importantly he gets to spend some time with the locals and natives, trying to understand their culture and way of living. The book is full of lovely photographs as well as tells the stories of some very brave men who dedicated their lives to exploring Northern Canada. All in all a very interesting and highly recommended read. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
To have Billy Connolly as a personal tour guide through some of the world's most dramatic landscapes in the vast wilderness of the Arctic is to enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience only he can offer. In his own quintessential way, this much-loved Scottish comedian, actor, musician and self-proclaimed 'citizen of the world' takes us zig-zagging from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean via Newfoundland, Canada, the Yukon and the Northwest Passage in an epic adventure only recently made possible through global warming. With his infectious enthusiasm and idiosyncratic humour, Billy goes searching for the beauty of ordinariness and bumps into all manner of weird and wonderful people along the way. He learns how to be a bear whisperer, pans for gold with prospectors, learns how to square dance, kayaks through ice floes between fishing trips, runs bare-assed into a sweat lodge, and attempts the finer complexities of the Inuit language. He jams with fiddlers, kisses a cod, goes hunting for Big Foot, and invokes the spirit of the ancients while iceberg-harvesting. With as many laugh-out-loud moments as they are poignant ones, Journey to the Edge of the World is more than just an informative and entertaining travel guide - it is time spent exclusively in the company of an irascible national treasure. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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