Voyager

  • Autor: Russell Banks
  • Narrador: Mark Bramhall
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 10:21:27
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Sinopse

The acclaimed, award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays that spans the globe, from the Caribbean to Scotland to the Himalayas.

Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. “Since childhood, I’ve longed for escape, for rejuvenation, for wealth untold, for erotic and narcotic and sybaritic fresh starts, for high romance, mystery, and intrigue,” he writes in this compelling anthology. The longing for escape has taken him from the “bright green islands and turquoise seas” of the Caribbean islands to peaks in the Himalayas, the Andes, and beyond.

In Voyager, Russell Banks, a lifelong explorer, shares highlights from his travels: interviewing Fidel Castro in Cuba; motoring to a hippie reunion with college friends in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; eloping to Edinburgh, with his fourth wife, Chase; driving a sunset orange metallic Hummer down Alaska’s Seward Highway.

In each of these remarkable essays, Banks considers his life and the world. In Everglades National Park this “perfect place to time-travel,” he traces his own timeline. “I keep going back, and with increasingly clarity I see more of the place and more of my past selves. And more of the past of the planet as well.” Recalling his trips to the Caribbean in the title essay, “Voyager,” Banks dissects his relationships with the four women who would become his wives. In the Himalayas, he embarks on a different quest of self-discovery. “One climbs a mountain not to conquer it, but to be lifted like this away from the earth up into the sky,” he explains.

Pensive, frank, beautiful, and engaging, Voyager brings together the social, the personal, and the historical, opening a path into the heart and soul of this revered writer.

Capítulos

  • 001 Voyager

    Duração: 36s
  • 002 Part I Voyager Pt1

    Duração: 01h06min
  • 003 Voyager Pt2

    Duração: 01h18min
  • 004 Voyager Pt3

    Duração: 01h08min
  • 005 Voyager Pt4

    Duração: 01h06min
  • 006 Part II Pilgrim's Regress

    Duração: 43min
  • 007 Primal Dreams

    Duração: 31min
  • 008 House of Slaves

    Duração: 19min
  • 009 The Last Birds of Paradise

    Duração: 01h04min
  • 010 Innocents Abroad

    Duração: 24min
  • 011 Last Days Feeding Frenzy

    Duração: 22min
  • 012 The Wrong Stuff

    Duração: 01h11min
  • 013 Fox and Whale, Priest and Angel

    Duração: 24min
  • 014 Old Goat

    Duração: 37min
  • 015 Credits

    Duração: 01min
  • sample

    Duração: 01min