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Shadow of the silk road.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION)(Book review)
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September 1, 2007
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The greatest land route.
Despite its name, the Silk Road--the almost mythical subject of Colin Thubron's ninth travel book--is not a single road but a vast network of trade routes that have conducted merchants, goods, explorers, and armies from east to west and west to east since 1500 BC. Tracing the 7,000-mile, officially unmarked route from Xian, China, to Antioch, Turkey, took the 60-something Thubron two years and led him through countries and among people he had written about as many as 40 years earlier. Thubron travels rough--hitchhiking, ...
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Jack Kerouac Bio
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...I'm Renee Montagne. Writer Jack Kerouac achieved the rarest of things...in 1958. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP) JACK KEROUAC, WRITER: Well, here I am, 2...wife Carolyn, in the dust. But Jack Kerouac had hundreds of girlfriends and...
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Jack Kerouac's Famous Scroll, 'On the Road' Again
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...Things Considered 07-05-2007 Jack Kerouac's Famous Scroll, 'On the Road...September will mark 50 years since Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" hit bookshelves...break that. Mr. JOHN SAMPAS (Jack Kerouac's brother-in-law and executor...
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 "Talk of the Nation (NPR)")
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Jack Kerouac
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR)
; ...going on. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP) JACK KEROUAC: A lot of people have asked me...report you well and truly. SUAREZ: Jack Kerouac, recorded in the 1950s. With...personal history. In the case of Jack Kerouac, the trail has not run cold...
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Profile: Forty-fifth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road"
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...Forty-fifth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On The Road Host: BOB EDWARDS...years ago, it caused a sensation. Jack Kerouac's style approximated jazz riffs...of 1957, about the only thing Jack Kerouac had to show for On The Road was...
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Voyages et fictions chez Jack Kerouac: une ethnographie de la franco-americanite?
Magazine article from: Anthropologie et Societés
; RSUM Voyages et fictions chez Jack Kerouac. Une ethnographie de la franco...appuyant sur la dfinition que Jack Kerouac a donne de lui-mme (<...amricain. Mots cls : Bibeau, Jack Kerouac, Canuck, Franco-Amricains...
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A WEEK OF JACK KEROUAC IN LOWELL
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...most famous sons this week -- Jack Kerouac, the chronicler of the Beat Generation...major work of public art, the Jack Kerouac Commemorative. The commemorative...Pawtucketville Social Club for "A Guide to Jack Kerouac's Lowell" by Brian Foye, a...
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Jack Kerouac's Long and Winding Road Trip
Magazine article from: The Out Traveler
; ...heartbreaking and oblique queer romance. Jack Kerouac's famed coming-of-age travel noveland...you could call my life on the road," Kerouac wrote. Paul Maher Jr., author of 2007's Jack Kerouac's American Journey, recounts anecdotes...
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 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)")
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Jack Kerouac's long and winding Road trip: the revolutionary 1957 travel memoir On the Road ignited a generation and flung open the floodgates of hip "otherness." At its core is a heartbreaking and oblique queer romance.
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
; Jack Kerouac's famed coming-of-age travel novel...you could call my life on the road," Kerouac wrote. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Paul Maher Jr., author of 2007's Jack Kerouac's American Journey, recounts anecdotes...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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JAZZ-INFUSED STORY OF JACK KEROUAC HAS MATURED ALONG WITH ITS CREATOR.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...Generation writer and icon Jack Kerouac. At the time, the author...interpreting the era in ``Kerouac: The Essence of Jack,'' the one man and jazz...Over the 17-year run of ``Jack,'' Kerouac's life has transformed Balestri...
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For Berwyn writer Nicosia, the Kerouac Beat goes on // But only if funding for "Jack in Ghost-Town" is found
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...our own desires, which has been Jack Kerouac's dilemma since he checked out...Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac, a 750-page book considered...things I have seen is the magic that Jack Kerouac was able to cast - the power of...
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