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The Tourist Trail
Contributor(s): Yunker, John (Author)
ISBN: 0979647525     ISBN-13: 9780979647529
Publisher: Ashland Creek Press
OUR PRICE:   $18.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Romance - Contemporary
- Fiction | Sea Stories
Dewey: FIC
Series: Across Oceans
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.25" W x 8" (0.71 lbs) 282 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Ecology
 
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Publisher Description:

An environmental novel about endangered species and those who risk their lives to protect them...

Biologist Angela Haynes is accustomed to dark, lonely nights as one of the few humans at a penguin research station in Patagonia. She has grown used to the cries of penguins before dawn, to meager supplies and housing, to spending most of her days in one of the most remote regions on earth. What she isn't used to is strange men washing ashore, which happens one day on her watch. The man won't tell her his name or where he came from, but Angela, who has a soft spot for strays, tends to him, if for no other reason than to protect her birds and her work. When she later learns why he goes by an alias, why he is a refugee from the law, and why he is a man without a port, she begins to fall in love-and embarks on a journey that takes her deep into Antarctic waters, and even deeper into the emotional territory she thought she'd left behind.

Against the backdrop of the Southern Ocean, The Tourist Trail weaves together the stories of Angela as well as FBI agent Robert Porter, dispatched on a mission that unearths a past he would rather keep buried; and Ethan Downes, a computer tech whose love for a passionate activist draws him into a dangerous mission.


Contributor Bio(s): Yunker, John: - John Yunker is a writer of short stories, novels, and plays. The Tourist Trail began as a short story by the same name and won the Phoebe Journal 2010 Fiction Prize. His full-length play Meat the Parents was a finalist in the 2014 Centre Stage New Plays Festival and 2015 AACT New Plays Contest semi-finalist. His one-act play Little Red House was published in the literary journal Mason's Road, and produced in 2014 by the Studio Players Theatre in Lexington, Kentucky. He is editor of the anthology Among Animals: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction and is co-founder of Ashland Creek Press, a publisher devoted to environmental and animal rights literature.