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The Sharks of Lake Nicaragua: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fishing

av Randy Wayne White

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Whether he's engaging in mock aerial combat or riding an Iditarod sled, Randy Wayne White is one of America's most adventurous travelers. In this collection he studies anti-terrorist driving techniques, dives for golf balls in an alligator-infested pond, hunts his fellow man with a paint gun, ice-fishes for walleye with X-ray-stunned night-crawlers, and goes pig-shooting with Dr. Pavlov. With self-effacing optimism, White captures joys and fears of wandering the earth's surface with an eclectic cast of fellow travelers: a frog that won't jump, a group of expatriate Brits who developed an interesting cure for "road jaundice," and even a mad Australian scientist. Though he rarely finds what he's looking for--like the legendary landlocked bull sharks of Lake Nicaragua--he develops a Zen-like "passion for the means," and a rare ability to revel in the rib-aching humor of each exotic trip.… (mer)
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The Sharks of Lake Nicaragua was compiled from a series of articles published in Outside Magazine from 1987 to 1997. White travels around the world and not only describes the locales and the people, but his personal misadventures. The articles can be humorous and self-effacing, such as when a spectator describes White attempting to surf in San Diego as resembling "a gorilla trying to drown a Popsicle stick." I don't know if the articles in the book are published in chronological order, but they become increasingly sophisticated and aware of the world. The title story, last in the book, addresses how poverty, political upheaval, and war in Nicaragua has adversely affected the natural habitat and the people. White, however, leaves off with a hint of optimism in the form of a father carving a baseball bat for his sons. ( )
  Hagelstein | May 17, 2009 |
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Whether he's engaging in mock aerial combat or riding an Iditarod sled, Randy Wayne White is one of America's most adventurous travelers. In this collection he studies anti-terrorist driving techniques, dives for golf balls in an alligator-infested pond, hunts his fellow man with a paint gun, ice-fishes for walleye with X-ray-stunned night-crawlers, and goes pig-shooting with Dr. Pavlov. With self-effacing optimism, White captures joys and fears of wandering the earth's surface with an eclectic cast of fellow travelers: a frog that won't jump, a group of expatriate Brits who developed an interesting cure for "road jaundice," and even a mad Australian scientist. Though he rarely finds what he's looking for--like the legendary landlocked bull sharks of Lake Nicaragua--he develops a Zen-like "passion for the means," and a rare ability to revel in the rib-aching humor of each exotic trip.

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