Lightning Strikes of Loopy Giddiness and Other Bucket List Travel Tales - Softcover

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Ken McAlpine’s magazine articles, from which these stories are drawn, have earned three Lowell Thomas awards, travel writing's top award. He is also the author of seven books; a collection of fiction, non-fiction and essays. Sunset Magazine called his novel Together We Jump "lyrical, evocative and deeply moving... a luminous American novel." The story was praised by the Los Angeles Review as "poetic... a roller coaster ride through the mind and soul... McAlpine's use of language and plot made every page turn." His novel Fog, an eerie maritime mystery that unfolds on the wreck-strewn coast of Cape Cod in 1882, was described by a reviewer as "one of the most intelligent, richly detailed, deeply felt and evocative novels I've read." His non-fiction works include the books Off Season: Discovering America on Winter's Shore (a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection) and Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization, and a collection of essays, West is Eden: Reflections on this Gift Called Life. His most recent novel Juncture is a cerebral Jaws; a suspense-filled thriller, a story of primal love, our changing oceans and, perhaps, a final fork in the road. In the oceans creatures are stirring, a fast-rising tide of seemingly random shocking events not random at all…