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Hobo Sapien
Wayne Iverson
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Description for Hobo Sapien
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 164.
Garrison Keillor meets Jack Kerouac meets Mahatma Gandhi in this wry, roadwise scripture. Hobo Sapien is a series of freight train parables born out of the author's twelve-plus years riding freight trains, combined with lessons learned in his seven-year stint as a Self-Realization Fellowship monk, plus the added bonus of fascinating railroad history. Non-fiction readers buy books to learn something, for reference, or to be entertained. Hobo Sapien fills all three bills. Readers will get a unique immersion into the underground world of the hobo. The spiritual takes are written with a subtle humor that helps the medicine go down. ... Read more
Garrison Keillor meets Jack Kerouac meets Mahatma Gandhi in this wry, roadwise scripture. Hobo Sapien is a series of freight train parables born out of the author's twelve-plus years riding freight trains, combined with lessons learned in his seven-year stint as a Self-Realization Fellowship monk, plus the added bonus of fascinating railroad history. Non-fiction readers buy books to learn something, for reference, or to be entertained. Hobo Sapien fills all three bills. Readers will get a unique immersion into the underground world of the hobo. The spiritual takes are written with a subtle humor that helps the medicine go down. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Career Assurance Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
San Francisco, United States
ISBN
9781934759431
SKU
V9781934759431
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About Wayne Iverson
An All-American boy from Minnesota, Wayne attended Yale University. An identity crisis led to three years of roaming. He transferred colleges and hopped freight trains. He became a city planner in western ski areas, then a monk for seven years. Married in Colorado, he and his wife moved to Oklahoma to assist her parents. That dharma done, the mountains beckon. ... Read more
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