Equator: A JourneyProvides a firsthand account of the author's three-year trek along the equator and his encounters with diverse and colorful people and cultures and ways of life both exotic and familiar |
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User Review - MiaCulpa - LibraryThingSlightly dated now but still a very useful and interesting read on equatorial nations, their people, their problems and their eccentricities. After a slow start in South America, Clarke gets into his ... Read full review
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User Review - mrtall - LibraryThingEquator, by Thurston Clarke, is all about going around the world the hard way. That is, instead of doing a Michael Palin and tracing Phineas Fogg's northern hemisphere traverse of the globe, Clarke ... Read full review
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| Title | Equator: A Journey |
| Author | Thurston Clarke |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0380708558, 9780380708550 |
| Length | 464 pages |
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