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Water and Wilderness... Robinson's irreverent humor gets a workout
in Missouri's back country. ...Beauty and Danger "I'd crossed a
threshold, a no man's land scattered with rattlesnakes and
rednecks, whirlpools and whiskey stills, deep woods caverns and
cracks named after devils, nervous meth cookers and fish that jump
up and smack you in the head. The journey was a wild, wooly hoot "
He bought the car a dozen years ago. Together, they traveled every
mile of every road on his highway map, a 250,000 mile journey to
discover the real America beyond the interstate. Real people.
Obscure places. Forgotten facts. His story unfolds in Missouri, but
it could be about any state, any traveler who drives into America's
hidden heart. ..".irreverent sense of humor." -Tom Uhlenbrock, St.
Louis Post Dispatch "No one knows Missouri's backroads like John
Robinson." -Jim McCarty, Rural Missouri Magazine
THIS BOOK IS A CONGLOMERATION OF STORIES, AND ALTHOUGH THEY ARE
BASED ON TRUTHS. THEY ARE FABRICATED TO SUIT THIS STORY LINE. THERE
IS NO INTENT TO TRY TO EXPOSE ANYBODY FOR ANYTHING. IT IS MY
INTENTION TO MAKE THIS BOOK AN ENJOYABLE READ, WITH ADVENTURE,
TRAGETY, FUN, AND LOVE. I HAVE CHANGED ALL OF THE NAMES AND HAVE
MENTIONED NO LAST NAMES IN THIS STORY. SIT BACK AND LET ME TAKE YOU
TO THE PLACES THAT ONLY YOUR IMAGINATION COULD THINK UP. THIS STORY
TAKES YOU FROM A POOR BROKEN HOME, THROUGH THE DRUG INDUCED ERA OF
THE 60'S, TO A FAILED MARRIGE, AND FINALLY TO THE OCEAN, AND THE
REAL ADVENTURES. THIS BOOK IS A LIFE TIME OF STORIES TO BE
REMEMBERED. IT IS HOW I CAME UP WITH THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK.
NOMATTER WHERE YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE.
In this prequel to Treasure Island," John Drake brilliantly
imagines the back story of the" "storied pirates, John Silver and
Captain Joseph Flint.
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