Down to This
Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown
For some young men, climbing Everest or sailing solo into polar seas isn't the biggest risk in the world. Instead it is venturing alone into the deepest urban jungle, where human nature is the dangerous, incomprehensible and sometimes wildly uplifting force that tests not only your ability to survive but also your own humanity.One cold November day, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall heads out on just such a quest. He packs up a new tent, some clothes, his notebooks and a pen and goes to live in Tent City, twenty-seven lawless acres where the largest hobo town on the continent squats in the scandalized shadow of Canada's largest city. The rules he sets…
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- ISBN: 978-0-679-31228-4
- EAN: 9780679312284
- Produktnummer: 16122923
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
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Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall has picked olives in Spain, painted villas in Italy and hopped freight trains in Arizona. His non-fiction has appeared in Saturday Night, the National Post and The Globe and Mail. The film rights for Down to This have been optioned by Shaftesbury Films.
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