Between 2 LIves
One Man's Journey from Musician to World Adventurer
by Howard M Beck
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About the Book
A personal account of how one man's promising future as a pianist was curtailed, and instead he became a world adventurer exploring off-beat destinations.
With the dry humor and typical understatement of an English northerner, this earthy narrative introduces the reader to a life lived like a tin can tied to a dog’s tail. One moment the writer is sharing a Huey helicopter with the Norwegian Airforce to discover mysterious caves beyond the Arctic Circle, then he is off climbing mountains on four continents or beating Melanesians in an archery contest.
His wacky adventures find him, cycling through the Italian Alps, bedding down with a tribe of corpse eaters in the Land of Laughing Death, becoming embroiled in tribal unrest in Papua New Guinea and dining on python, bats and rats. If that was not enough he attempts to keep one step ahead of major natural disasters in South America, and in a single day tries not to be poached alive, frost-bitten, sunburnt, asphyxiated, roasted, sand-blasted, scarified by winds strong enough to remove beards, and steamed until tender in the Land of Ice and Fire.
With the dry humor and typical understatement of an English northerner, this earthy narrative introduces the reader to a life lived like a tin can tied to a dog’s tail. One moment the writer is sharing a Huey helicopter with the Norwegian Airforce to discover mysterious caves beyond the Arctic Circle, then he is off climbing mountains on four continents or beating Melanesians in an archery contest.
His wacky adventures find him, cycling through the Italian Alps, bedding down with a tribe of corpse eaters in the Land of Laughing Death, becoming embroiled in tribal unrest in Papua New Guinea and dining on python, bats and rats. If that was not enough he attempts to keep one step ahead of major natural disasters in South America, and in a single day tries not to be poached alive, frost-bitten, sunburnt, asphyxiated, roasted, sand-blasted, scarified by winds strong enough to remove beards, and steamed until tender in the Land of Ice and Fire.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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Project Option: 6×9 in, 15×23 cm
# of Pages: 230 -
Isbn
- Softcover: 9781367275591
- Publish Date: Sep 05, 2016
- Language English
- Keywords Life-style, biography, adventure
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About the Creator
Howard Michael Beck
England
Howard has been producing, designing and writing book since the early 1980s. He has writen and produced illustrated features for local and national British magazines since the 1970s and written over 20 books on a wide variety of topics, including cave explorations, botany, long-distance walking, local history, adventure, travel and exploration.