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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Benjamin, Chris, 1975-     Subjects     Benjamin, Chris, 1975- -- Travel.     Periodical editors -- Biography.     Novelists, Canadian -- 21st century -- Travel.     Hitchhiking -- Canada -- Anecdotes.     Hitchhiking -- United States -- Anecdotes.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Benjamin, Chris, 1975-       by title:      Chasing paradise : a...       by call number:      070.44991 B468c     Search the Web     Benjamin, Chris, 1975-     Benjamin, Chris, 1975- -- Travel.     Periodical editors -- Biography.     Novelists, Canadian -- 21st century -- Travel.     Hitchhiking -- Canada -- Anecdotes.     Hitchhiking -- United States -- Anecdotes.       MARC Display

Chasing paradise : a hitchhiker's search for home in a world at war with itself / Chris Benjamin. by Benjamin, Chris, 1975- Pottersfield Press, c2023. Call #: 070.44991 B468c Subjects Benjamin, Chris, 1975- -- Travel.   Periodical editors -- Biography.   Novelists, Canadian -- 21st century -- Travel.   Hitchhiking -- Canada -- Anecdotes.   Hitchhiking -- United States -- Anecdotes. ISBN:  9781990770081 (pbk.) Description:  200 p. ; 22 cm. Summary:  "In May, 2001, Chris Benjamin hitchhiked across Canada and volunteered on organic farms in British Columbia. He was in search of a good home, love and community, and perhaps a source of income to pay off his student loans. After BC, he ventured south. This memoir is based on the detailed journals he kept at that time, hitching and Greyhounding his way across Canada and the USA, winding up in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. The journals consisted mainly of what people said to him: those who picked him up and the bus riders he encountered -- including soldiers and kids fresh from jail. Travelling in post 9/11 United States, the author tried not to succumb to the anger of those who wished for a vengeful global comeuppance. Throughout his journey, our shy young narrator falls in and out of love with place and soul, remaining ever-watchful for signs of a peaceful pocket to call home. What he finds instead is an unexpected sort of homecoming, and surprising joy in a sense of purpose. He writes of the oddities of organic food production, walking through the grotesque aftermath of a massive clear-cut forest, and drop-ins at artist hippie communes. [The book] is both an engrossing road memoir and a treatise from the generation stuck somewhere between corporate greed and hippie disillusionment."-- From publisher. Chris Benjamin is the author of four previous award-winning books. His most recent is 'Boy with a problem,' which was shotlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction. He is also a feelance features writer and magazine editor. Genre:  Travel memoirs. Nonfiction novels. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 070.44991 B468c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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