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| As Far As You Can Go Without A Passport: The View From The End Of The Road | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Bodett
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 87895
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0201106736
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.09798
EAN: 9780201106732
ASIN: 0201106736
Publication Date: January 21, 1986
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As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport, Bodett's first collection of casual essays, contains pieces on everything from trapping, tree cutting, and halibut fishing, to soap operas, lost socks, and sleeping in. Its's guaranteed to please both the renegade and the homebody in every reader.
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 The deadpan yet revealing humor of a man literally at the end of the road December 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The best comedy writers often use their own experiences to generate their material. If their subject matter is a particular lifestyle or area of the country, then they must have lived it and generally stay within it. Bodett lives in Homer, Alaska, and a place that I quite frankly had to look up on a map. His real life is that of a building contractor, and his deadpan delivery made him very popular on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
In this book, Bodett puts forward a series of short "observations" about life in small town Alaska. He talks about hunting, fishing, having and raising a child, a reclusive trapper with his sled dogs and other natural things found in that area of Alaska. He also talks about other annoyances that all other adults can relate too. Socks getting lost in the laundry, cooking a meal that smells like a pile of long neglected laundry, the perils of Christmas shopping and the universal junk drawer containing a "required" set of worthless materials. Bodett puts it all down in a matter-of-fact style as if these situations are a natural part of the human condition. His attitude is that since we can't do anything about it anyway, we might as well take it in stride. For some people, comments and comedy are one and the same and Bodett fits well into that group.
Yes, yes, yes July 22, 1999
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Thanks Tom for making me snort laugh through my nose. I'll be searching out your other work now.
 Don't leave home without this valuable source April 24, 1998
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
A passport is a really necessary item -- most of the time -- but as this book shows, you don't need one all the time. And, for certain places, a passport is not needed at all. But, how far can you go without one? This book gives you details on that and more. It will make your passport even more valuable, and, significantly, it will give you the lowdown on where you should go -- passport or not. Highly recommended.
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