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Food Plane Soup: The Desert Island Letters
When the dot com bubble burst in the fall of 2001, the newly laid-off author spent three months on Grand Turk in the Turks & Caicos Islands of the British West Indies. This collection comprises the weekly email updates with which he entertained and stymied his audience back home. It follows his misadventures with backwardness and corruption in a colony no longer wanted by its rulers, dealing with the events of September 11 in a foreign country, and the imminent nervous breakdown which threatened his sanity and forced him back into "civilization."
Print: $12.92
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Send in the Cones: The Cruise Ship Letters
In his second book, the author once again enters weird territory--this time as an officer on a popular cruise ship, amidst crewmembers from almost every country in the world.
Taking refuge in the ship's crew bar, Nickell observes and reports on the surreal, fascinating, and oftentimes frustrating life of working on a cruise ship.
Tall tales, hurricanes, disintegrating uniforms, rogue cans of Guinness, the McDonaldization of an entire company, and dour observations of American tourists are all in a day's work, and thirsty work it is.
Print: $13.92
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Time is of the Lessons: An Island's Heritage
In this memoir, William "Bull" Hefferton recalls his thirty years as a teacher and coach in Newfoundland's educational system at the end of the Twentieth Century and compares his experiences and career with those of his uncle, Samuel J. Hefferton, who taught at the beginning of the Twentieth Century and was made Newfoundland's first Minister of Education in 1949.
Citing his uncle's diaries, speeches, and conversations, Hefferton explores the differences and similarities of a timeless profession separated by the gulf of Time. He covers the topics of school routine, punishment, sports, attendance, and the philosophical nature of education itself.
Not to mention a few pranks and general shit-disturbing along the way.
Print: $16.91
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