An Amateur's Guide to the Planet: 12 Adventure Journeys and Lessons for the Contemporary United States

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Editorial Reviews

Ann Stewart

In an era of travel books describing epic journeys and heroic adventures, it isn't easy to write something different. Jeannette Belliveau, author of An Amateur's Guide to the Planet, took a route less traveled, but not less accessible.

Traveling the way most of us do, Belliveau tells us about her trips to Kenya, Thailand and Greece. But what's different is the questions she asks and her extensive search to find the answers.

In Madagascar, she searches for the rare indri lemur and finds them in a forested knoll. Not content to merely meet and photograph them, she researches their plight, and in doing so, sees the even bigger picture of Earth's fragility.

Each of the 12 chapters weaves a travel story with what Belliveau calls "a central lesson." In Burma, the lesson is on the nature of poverty. In Borneo, it's on modern missionaries. In Brazil, the lesson is on racial democracy. Her stories are very well-documented and still quite readable.

Belliveau, a former editor at the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun, reminds us to look not just with our senses, but also with our minds and hearts as we find our own adventures. -- Boulder Planet

Heather Wisner
Reviewing travel books for the Baltimore Sun inspired Jeannette Belliveau beyond wanderlust: she concluded that she could write a travel book of her own, and a better one at that. Her decision led to An Amateur's Guide to the Planet, a collection of warmly personal reader-friendly accounts and photos of her own travels, wherein she bypassed the European museum circuit in favor of sailing trips down the Yangtze River and treks across the Kenyan plains. -- San Francisco Weekly
Paul Barstow
Belliveau's tortured trip on the 1:05 to Beijing is only one of the memorable odysseys recorded in this delightful work written in the best tradition of Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad. Informative and entertaining, the book can be read aloud or sampled for geography lessons, environmental studies, or vivid snapshots of unfamiliar (and often misunderstood) cultures. -- Social Studies School Service
Library Journal
While her book may not live up to its title, Belliveau, a former copy and financial editor at the Baltimore Sun and a graphics editor at the Washington Post, has put together some entertaining vignettes about her travels to 12 extremely exotic and exciting destinations: Madagascar, China, Borneo, Kenya and Tanzania, Japan, Polynesia, Thailand, Greece, the Yucatn, Java and Bali, Burma, and Brazil. Most of Belliveau's travels occurred from 1985 through 1994, when she was in her thirties, single, and on her own in some strange places, so these journeys reflect her inquisitiveness about other cultures and how people live. Her travels spawn questions about life, poverty, worldview, and human relationships. With an extensive bibliography of her destinations, her book is a good choice for anyone adventurous who wants to retrace some of her steps or for armchair travelers.Melinda Stivers Leach, Precision Editorial Svcs., Wondervu, Col.
Amy Cooper
In the mark of an excellent travel narrative, the reader is taken beyond pure experience and into philosophy. In all, Belliveau has done a great service in providing this book--it gives worthwhile information to the reader who might be planning a trip to one of these exotic places. And to the armchair traveler addicted to wit, information and adventure, she provides a satisfying trip through some interesting lands.
Belliveau's entertaining storytelling is easily the most interesting feature of this book. Location details are described with extraordinary flair, but it is the stories about the people that are the most memorable parts of this book. And then we hear the lessons from bits of the trip, little gems of wisdom that prompt us to think about the words we're reading as more than mind-candy, but as experience, as possibility, as something to which we might open ourselves. -- (Amy Cooper, Small Press)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780965234443
  • Publisher: Beau Monde Press
  • Publication date: 10/1/1996
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 8.56 (w) x 11.04 (h) x 0.77 (d)

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