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Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, And A Journey To The Ends Of The Earth List Price: $18.95
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8742
EAN: 9781586482374
ISBN: 1586482378
Label: PublicAffairs
Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2004-06-15
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date: 2004-06-15
Studio: PublicAffairs
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Summary: Sign me up!
Comment: A great read for any traveller, but especially a parent who wants to expose their kids to the world but thinks it's a crazy fantasy. Lots of fun - hope I can take my kids on a similar journey soon!

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Summary: Disappointed
Comment: I was looking forward to reading an account of a father travelling with his children and sharing their experiences. Instead, I found this book a diatribe about environmental issues and lacking in humour and interest. I couldn't identify with this man.

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Summary: Fantastic for Book Clubbers
Comment: I recently chose this book as a selection for a book club that I am a member of. I bought the book on the basis of the editorial reviews found here at amazon, and based on the fact that it was a top book from 2003. Daniel Glick is a writer of such ease, grace, and intimacy. I felt that i was on this journey with Glick and his young children. The book sparked great discussion in my goup, such topics as loss, tolerance, accountability, conservationism, and parenting. Daniel Glick should be very proud of this work of art and of his most important two works of art, his children!

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Summary: Couldn't finish it
Comment: I should have loved this book. I love travel writing, I'm a mom and I would love to do a trip like this with my own son someday. I just could not finish it. I'm amazed that it made Amazon's top 50.

I didn't find Glick or his kids very appealing. As I was reading I would think -- this part is supposed to be amusing, but it's not; this part is supposed to be touching, but it's not.

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Summary: Him and his children on a journey around the world
Comment: What is a father to do when his brother dies of cancer, his marriage ends, and his life falls apart? Newsweek correspondent Daniel Glick decided his course of action would take him and his children on a journey around the world to see some of the planet's vanishing life forms, and Monkey Dancing is his account of that trip, taken in the summer of 2001. From the Great Barrier Reef in Australia to elephants in Nepal, Glick and his three children embarked on an unforgettable adventure and Monkey Dancing tinges their experiences with insights on loss, fatherhood, and world changes.

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Editorial Reviews:
After losing his brother to cancer and a painful divorce that left him the sole charge d'affaires of two decidedly spirited children, environmental reporter Daniel Glick knew he and his little family desperately needed some karmic rejuvenation. He opted for an epic adventure. In the summer of 2001, Dan, Zoe, and Kolya packed up and set off on a six-month tour to see the world's most exotic and endangered habitats.

Monkey Dancing takes readers along for this incredible journey. From the python-infested rivers of Borneo to the highest summits of Bali, from Nepal's Gangeatic Plains to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Glick recounts the adventures they met with, the challenges they confronted, and how they learned to cope with grief, loss, and one another. Along the way, he offers intimate reflection on life, fatherhood, change, and the fragile health of our troubled planet.

Acclaimed by reviewers, a BookSense Parenting bestseller, Monkey Dancing is a "poignant, affirming, ultimately courageous book"—Audubon Magazine.


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