Braving Homeby Jake Halpern | |
| Category: |
"Travel" |
|---|---|
| Pages: | 227 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Date Added: | 04/18/2008 |
| Date Read: | 03/11/2015 |
| Notes: | The author visits five people who live in places that would be considered extreme to most people. A man in Princeville, North Carolina who stayed after a flood destroyed his entire town and everybody else left. A woman in Whittier, Alaska, which can only be reached by a long drive through a tunnel and where almost everybody lives in a single high rise and pretty much stays indoors all winter. A woman who lives above Malibu, California where forest fires are a constant threat. A man who lives on Hawaii in a home completely surrounded by active lava flows. And a man who lives on Grand Isle, Louisiana, which regularly gets hit by hurricanes. Halpern lives with these people, gets to know them and tries to figure out what makes them live where they do. |
| My Rating: | 6 |
Reviewed by Roger on 2015-03-11 18:27:38
