Travel > Adventure & Survival

This is a book for all the LIST lovers, the been-there-done-that-ers, the ones who keep mementos and the ones who take notes. The explorers, the adventurers, the curious and the wanderers. This is all for you. Make this book your own. Add stamps, stickers, receipts, admission stubs, dried flowers, wrist bands or anything else that is worth keeping. This book is meant to be as unique and individual as you are.

A cultural castaway writes winningly of life on a remote island in the Pacific that may be one of global warming’s first casualties. Just one month after his twenty-first birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist, and 2000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and teaching English to its schoolchildren. At first blush, Surviving Paradise is a thoughtful and laugh-out-loud hilarious documentation of Rudiak-Gould’s efforts to cope with daily life on Ujae as his idealistic expectations of a tropical paradise confront harsh re ...