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The Trail to Beginning's End an Excellent Adventure |
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A rich tour de force of worldwide adventuring ? commandeering 1,000-ton freighters at sea; racing powerful motorcycles and dragsters; piloting single-engine airplanes through ferocious thunderstorms while island-hopping across the Caribbean; wrestling 80,000-pound 18-wheel diesel tractor-trailers through the night; hunting dangerous game deep inside alligator-infested southern swamplands; spear-fishing offshore reefs teeming with hungry sharks; hosting a radio show while directing and producing TV programs; lecturing as a 30-year-old university professor; traveling the world as an international dealmaker, hard-nosed negotiator and senior corporate executive in the military industrial complex? ? that makes The Trail to Beginning's End an Excellent Adventure of the first order.To the question, ?If someone wrote a book about your life, would anyone want to read it?? ? we offer the following excerpts.?The search was vast beyond imagining, islands scattered throughout an astonishing 150,000 square mile area. Low on fuel and none expected on the remote island for weeks, he nursed the plane's nearly dry tank onward.??Surprisingly, the baba had already arrived and was seated in the room, its only furniture a short-legged table upon which a candle sputtered beneath a small incense burner ? a dhooni, where the sadhu keeps his holy fire.??The day of the newspaper story, we sailed into port with a thousand tons of sorely needed food for an anxious and grateful country then experiencing a nationwide shortage.??The electricity had failed and the crumbling building was dark with long, jagged cracks and gaping holes in the exterior wall. As the earthquake's rumbling subsided we stumbled down 7 flightsof dark, uneven stairs then onto the littered street outside.??A troop of Gurkha fired their rifles across the river, as the body was set afire. Once a Gurkha unsheathes his Kukri he must draw bloode
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