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The Roamers Book Club
by Black Gold Cabin
A book club for those full of wanderlust, the ramblers, the globetrotters, and the wayfarers. Each month Christine and Kyle read and discuss an adventure book that they hope will inspire courage and adventure in their own lives and the lives of their listeners.
Episodes
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
In 1995 travel writer Bill Bryson was living in the United States after residing in England for over twenty years and longed to reconnect with the country he once knew. Despite having little knowledge of hiking, camping, or the Great Outdoors he decided that an adventure on the 2,200 mile...
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Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
In 1996 author Jon Krakauer joined a Mount Everest expedition to document the recent commercialization of the world's highest peak. As an experienced alpinist, Krakauer understood the inherent dangers of climbing at extreme altitudes, but nothing could have prepared him for the events that…
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
Have you ever been lost in the woods? Did you immediately ball up in the fetal position and scream for help? Stephen King's, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon follows the story of Tricia McFarland, a nine year old girl who is lost in the woods with very few supplies and little water. Her only contact...
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The White Heart of Mojave by Edna Brush Perkins
After a long fight on the front lines of the women's suffrage movement Edna Brush Perkins and her friend Charlotte Jordan needed a vacation so they did what anyone would do to unwind and traveled for a month in one of the most inhospitable places on earth- Death Valley. At the time it was unheard...
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Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France by Adin Dobkin
The Roamers dive into the book Sprinting Through No Man's Land by Adin Dobkin who painstakingly chronicled the journey of the 1919 Tour de France cyclists many of whom had recently completed service in World War I. The ink on the Treaty at Versailles had barely dried when the riders took off on a...
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Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Roamers discuss Cheryl Strayed's book Wild which was adapted into the film of the same name staring Reese Witherspoon. In 1995 Strayed set out on the Pacific Crest Trail to traverse 1,100 miles of the California and Oregon wilderness on foot while escaping the life she left behind. Prior to...
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Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg
Christine and Kyle read Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg which chronicles the time that Ghinsberg........got lost in the jungle. In 1981 he and three other backpackers tromped into the Amazon jungle of Bolivia hoping to make contact with a legendary indigenous village and strike it rich by...
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Riding On - A Shake the Sleeping Self follow up
The book club revisits Jedediah Jenkins book, To Shake the Sleeping Self by talking to some long distance cyclists about what they're experiences on the road and what they've learned from being on the bike.
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Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
For two years in the 1950's Edward Abbey worked as a park ranger in Arches National Park (then monument) spending most of his time alone, contemplating the desert environment, humans relationship to nature, and conspiracy theories! After it was published in 1968 Desert Solitaire became an...
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Further Downstream - An interview with rafting expert Seth Peterson
As a follow up to Running the Amazon by Joe Kane, Christine interviewed her younger brother Seth Peterson who is a high skilled whitewater rafting and kyaking guide in the Pacific Northwest. Check out Seth saving the day here:
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Running the Amazon by Joe Kane
In 1986 a ragtag team of twelve explorers attempted to kayak the Amazon from source to sea. Their journey began 16,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes and ended 4,200 miles away at the Atlantic Ocean. They faced death at every turn, running class 5+ rapids, grappling with drug runners, negotiating...
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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
Throughout her teens and twenties Blair Braverman proved to herself that she could survive some of the coldest environments in the world while learning to drive sled dogs. Norway continuously beckoned and she made a second home in a tiny village north of the Arctic Circle ingratiating herself…
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To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins
Would you quit your dream job for an epic bike ride? Does travel result in life changing epiphanies? What impact do your parents have on who you become as an adult? The Roamers discuss Jedidiah Jenkins's sixteen month cycling trip from Oregon to Patagonia and answer every last question about...
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Texas Talk with MK Paulsen
In Travels with Charley John Steinbeck wrote, "Once you are in Texas it seems to take forever to get out and some people never make it." Our Texas correspondent, MK Paulsen made it out, but will always be a Texan at heart and was kind enough to share his thoughts on the Lone Star State.
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Travels With Charley: In Search of America: John Steinbeck
How does the current state of America compare to that of the 1960's? Has progress been made? Are cities doomed to fail? What great adventure is on your bucket list? Christine and Kyle attempt to answer these questions and more as they dive into John Steinbeck's book Travels with Charley: In…
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Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of World War II
This month the Roamers Book Club read Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of WWII. It is the remarkable story of Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr.--one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, African-American pilots and airmen that trained in Tuskegee, Alabama. From a...
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Following Tracks
We received a passionate opinion from a loyal Roamers member about Robyn Davidson's Tracks and we learned more about camels! Next week we'll be releasing our third episode which covers Peter Matthiessen's Snow Leopard. Call in to be featured on the show.
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Tracks by Robyn Davidson
"The most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision." We discuss Tracks by Robyn Davidson and her empowering 273-day, 1700-mile trek across the western Australian desert with four camels and a dog. Why she did it, what total solitude in the desert (without...
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Kon Tiki - By Raft Across the South Seas
This episode of Roamers covers Kon Tiki which was a 1947 expedition where the author, Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out on an adventure as they sailed on a log raft from Peru to the Polynesian islands. When it was first published Kon Tiki was a best seller and footage from the expedition was...
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Welcome to The Roamers Book Club
Mini-adventurers, Christine and Kyle, introduce The Roamers Book Club. Join the club and read the first adventure book, Kon-Tiki by Norwegian explorer and writer, Thor Heyerdahl. The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 harebrained journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from Peru to the Polynesian...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A book club for those full of wanderlust, the ramblers, the globetrotters, and the wayfarers. Each month Christine and Kyle read and discuss an adventure book that they hope will inspire courage and adventure in their own lives and the lives of their listeners.
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Black Gold Cabin
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A book club for those full of wanderlust, the ramblers, the globetrotters, and the wayfarers. Each month Christine and Kyle read and discuss an adventure book that they hope will inspire courage and adventure in their own lives and the lives of their listeners.
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