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No-Man's Lands : One Man's Odyssey Through the Odyssey by Scott Huler (2008, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCrown Publishing Group, T.H.E.

ISBN-10140008282X

ISBN-139781400082827

eBay Product ID (ePID)3038834785

Product Key Features

Book TitleNo-Man's Lands : One Man's Odyssey Through the Odyssey

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSpecial Interest / Literary, Ancient / Greece, Folklore & Mythology, Essays & Travelogues, Europe / General, Europe / Greece

Publication Year2008

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Social Science, History

AuthorScott Huler

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight17.7 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2007-033202

Reviews"This is an epic tale about an epic tale. Scott Huler writes with much learning, passion and humor (if not dactylic hexameter). I can't think of a better guide to this journey." -A. J. Jacobs, author ofThe Year of Living Biblically, "This is an epic tale about an epic tale. Scott Huler writes with much learning, passion and humor (if not dactylic hexameter). I can't think of a better guide to this journey." --A. J. Jacobs, author of "The Year of Living Biblically"

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal883/.01

SynopsisWhen NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce's "Ulysses," he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book's inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus. "No-Man's Lands" is Huler's funny and touching exploration of the life lessons embedded within "The Odyssey," a legendary tale of wandering and longing that could be read as a veritable guidebook for middle-aged men everywhere. At age forty-four, with his first child on the way, Huler felt an instant bond with Odysseus, who fought for some twenty years against formidable difficulties to return home to his beloved wife and son. In reading "The Odyssey," Huler saw the chance to experience a great vicarious adventure as well as the opportunity to assess the man he had become and embrace the imminent arrival of both middle age and parenthood. But Huler realized that it wasn't enough to simply read the words on the page--he needed to live Odysseus's odyssey, to visit the exotic destinations that make Homer's story so timeless. And so an ambitious pilgrimage was born . . . traveling the entire length of Odysseus's two-decade journey. In six months. Huler doggedly retraced Odysseus's every step, from the ancient ruins of Troy to his ultimate destination in Ithaca. On the way, he discovers the Cyclops's Sicilian cave, visits the land of the dead in Italy, ponders the lotus from a Tunisian resort, and paddles a rented kayak between Scylla and Charybdis and lives to tell the tale. He writes of how and why the lessons of "The Odyssey"--the perils of ambition, the emptiness of glory, the value of love and family--continueto resonate so deeply with readers thousands of years later. And as he finally closes in on Odysseus's final destination, he learns to fully appreciate what Homer has been saying all along: the greatest adventures of all are the ones that bring us home to those we love. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part critical reading of the greatest adventure epic ever written, "No-Man's Lands" is an extraordinary description of two journeys--one ancient, one contemporary--and reveals what The Odyssey can teach us about being better bosses, better teachers, better parents, and better people., When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce's Ulysses , he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book's inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus. No-Man's Lands is Huler's funny and touching exploration of the life lessons embedded within The Odyssey , a legendary tale of wandering and longing that could be read as a veritable guidebook for middle-aged men everywhere. At age forty-four, with his first child on the way, Huler felt an instant bond with Odysseus, who fought for some twenty years against formidable difficulties to return home to his beloved wife and son. In reading The Odyssey , Huler saw the chance to experience a great vicarious adventure as well as the opportunity to assess the man he had become and embrace the imminent arrival of both middle age and parenthood.But Huler realized that it wasn't enough to simply read the words on the page-he needed to live Odysseus's odyssey, to visit the exotic destinations that make Homer's story so timeless. And so an ambitious pilgrimage was born . . . traveling the entire length of Odysseus's two-decade journey. In six months.Huler doggedly retraced Odysseus's every step, from the ancient ruins of Troy to his ultimate destination in Ithaca. On the way, he discovers the Cyclops's Sicilian cave, visits the land of the dead in Italy, ponders the lotus from a Tunisian resort, and paddles a rented kayak between Scylla and Charybdis and lives to tell the tale. He writes of how and why the lessons of The Odyssey -the perils of ambition, the emptiness of glory, the value of love and family-continue to resonate so deeply with readers thousands of years later. And as he finally closes in on Odysseus's final destination, he learns to fully appreciate what Homer has been saying all along: the greatest adventures of all are the ones that bring us home to those we love. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part critical reading of the greatest adventure epic ever written, No-Man's Lands is an extraordinary description of two journeys-one ancient, one contemporary-and reveals what The Odyssey can teach us about being better bosses, better teachers, better parents, and better people.

LC Classification NumberPA4167.A2H85 2007