re Philip Greenspun Part 2 "Travels with Samantha"
- From: Carl Hansen <hansen@[redacted]>
- Subject: re Philip Greenspun Part 2 "Travels with Samantha"
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:36:55 -0800
http://webtravel.org/samantha/
Travels with Samantha
by Philip Greenspun
"This book is about the summer I spent seeing North America, meeting
North Americans, and trying to figure out how people live," writes
Greenspun after losing his companion. You'll come face to face with
examples of the stunning ethnic, scenic, and cultural richness of
the continent.
"Meet both sides of the language war in Montreal, bored youths in
the Midwest, North Dakota Harley riders, struggling single mothers
in the Yukon, and free spirits in Alaska. Join Greenspun as he
travels up the spine of the Rocky Mountains into Canada and then
up the Alaska Highway. Splash down in a float plane and spend a
week with 20 bears.
"Work your way through the Inside Passage on the Alaska Marine
Highway, and get inside a salmon processing factory. See if Greenspun
survives touring Vancouver, Vancouver Island, and the Pacific
Northwest with old friends and new. Ask about polygamy in Salt Lake
City, mountain bike the Slickrock Trail, and learn how to live with
AIDS in Utah. Watch the waters recede from the Great Flood of '93
in St. Louis. Follow Greenspun back to Boston and MIT.
in HTML, Postscript , plain text; also
for those interested in portable book reader type devices, here is an
experiment:
"New: Travels with Samantha is now available in PalmPilot format"
http://webtravel.org/samantha/pilot/
http://photo.net/samantha/pilot/readme.txt :
Readme file for palmpilot docs of Travels with Samantha
July 1, 1998
Document conversion provided by Matthew Haughey (matt@[redacted]
using the free, online html-to-pilotdoc converter found at
http://pilot.screwdriver.net
Downloaded .prc files of each chapter must be installed using 3com's
pilot app installer. The total size of all chapters totals 299k.
The installed doc files can be easily viewed using Aportis' Doc
Reader. A free version can be found at
http://www.aportis.com/tryme/download/AportisDoc/aportisdocreader.html
An added feature of the Aportis Doc Reader is the ability to stop at
any point in the document, and the next time the application is
launched, will jump right back to where the text was last left.
Enjoy Travels with Samantha, wherever you go.
"It would be nice if modesty prevented me from mentioning that
Travels with Samantha won a Best of the Web '94 award."
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