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As far as you can go without a passport : the view from the end of the road : comments and comic pieces

Author: Tom Bodett
Publisher: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1986.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st paperback edView all editions and formats
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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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Named Person: Tom Bodett
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tom Bodett
ISBN: 0201106736 : 9780201106732
OCLC Number: 14941728
Description: 143 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: At home: End of the road --
Sleep guilt --
Sock conspiracy --
Grocery shopping --
Bon appetit --
Small places --
Seasons: Cutting trees --
End of summer --
Halloween --
Travel time --
Christmas shopping --
Out of sight, out of season --
Family and friends: Grandma Hattie --
Thirty candles --
Prenatal paint --
Baby names --
Mother's many helpers --
Birth rites --
Issues and observations: Group that notices things --
Reasonable doubts --
Elections --
Tourist trade --
Private pains --
Contraries --
Big city --
Working life: Winter construction --
Researchers --
Dress for Success --
Beard ranching --
Slow life --
Distractions: Trivial pursuit --
New-car jitters --
Soaps --
Mailbox miracles --
TV people --
Outdoor life: Moose hunting --
Trapper --
Dog fix --
Halibut fishing --
King salmon --
Hollywood discovers Alaska.
Responsibility: by Tom Bodett.

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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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