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David Elliot Cohen
One Year Off - Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
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Have you ever wanted to take a year off from your life? A meandering, serendipitous journey around the world with your family? It sounds impossible. But one day, David Elliot Cohen, co-creator of the bestselling Day in the Life and America 24/7 book series, decided to make this dream a reality. Over the course of six months, he and his wife sold their house, cars, and most of their possessions. He closed his business and pulled their three young children out of school. With only a suitcase, a backpack, and a passport per person, the Cohen family set off on a rollicking round-the-world journey filled with laugh-out-loud mishaps, heart-pounding adventures, and unforeseen epiphanies. In Botswana, the Cohens’s tiny motorboat is charged by a hippo. In Zimbabwe, lions ambush a buffalo outside the family’s tent. In Australia, their young daughter is caught in a riptide and nearly pulled out to sea.
In One Year Off, you can join the family on a trek up a Costa Rican volcano, cruise the canals of Burgundy by houseboat, and ride ferries through the Greek Islands. Later, as the Cohens wander further off the tourist trail, you can drive through the villages of Rajasthan, traverse the vast Australian Nullarbor, and discover the charms of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat and the hidden shangri-las of northern Laos.
Over the course of these adventures, the Cohens learn to live as a family twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend time together without the distractions of modern life. The author rediscovers the world through his children’s eyes and gains new perspective of his own life. This humorous, heartfelt story is the next best thing to taking the trip yourself
In One Year Off, you can join the family on a trek up a Costa Rican volcano, cruise the canals of Burgundy by houseboat, and ride ferries through the Greek Islands. Later, as the Cohens wander further off the tourist trail, you can drive through the villages of Rajasthan, traverse the vast Australian Nullarbor, and discover the charms of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat and the hidden shangri-las of northern Laos.
Over the course of these adventures, the Cohens learn to live as a family twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend time together without the distractions of modern life. The author rediscovers the world through his children’s eyes and gains new perspective of his own life. This humorous, heartfelt story is the next best thing to taking the trip yourself
About the author
A graduate of Yale University, David Elliot Cohen was co-creator of the award-winning Day in the Life and America 24/7 series of photography books as well as dozens of other books. Four of his books have been New York Times bestsellers and six others have been national and international bestsellers. He lives in Manhattan and San Francisco.
Summary
Have you ever wanted to take a year off from your life? A meandering, serendipitous journey around the world with your family? It sounds impossible. But one day, David Elliot Cohen, co-creator of the bestselling Day in the Life and America 24/7 book series, decided to make this dream a reality. Over the course of six months, he and his wife sold their house, cars, and most of their possessions. He closed his business and pulled their three young children out of school. With only a suitcase, a backpack, and a passport per person, the Cohen family set off on a rollicking round-the-world journey filled with laugh-out-loud mishaps, heart-pounding adventures, and unforeseen epiphanies. In Botswana, the Cohens’s tiny motorboat is charged by a hippo. In Zimbabwe, lions ambush a buffalo outside the family’s tent. In Australia, their young daughter is caught in a riptide and nearly pulled out to sea.
In One Year Off, you can join the family on a trek up a Costa Rican volcano, cruise the canals of Burgundy by houseboat, and ride ferries through the Greek Islands. Later, as the Cohens wander further off the tourist trail, you can drive through the villages of Rajasthan, traverse the vast Australian Nullarbor, and discover the charms of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat and the hidden shangri-las of northern Laos.
Over the course of these adventures, the Cohens learn to live as a family twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend time together without the distractions of modern life. The author rediscovers the world through his children’s eyes and gains new perspective of his own life. This humorous, heartfelt story is the next best thing to taking the trip yourself
In One Year Off, you can join the family on a trek up a Costa Rican volcano, cruise the canals of Burgundy by houseboat, and ride ferries through the Greek Islands. Later, as the Cohens wander further off the tourist trail, you can drive through the villages of Rajasthan, traverse the vast Australian Nullarbor, and discover the charms of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat and the hidden shangri-las of northern Laos.
Over the course of these adventures, the Cohens learn to live as a family twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend time together without the distractions of modern life. The author rediscovers the world through his children’s eyes and gains new perspective of his own life. This humorous, heartfelt story is the next best thing to taking the trip yourself
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“Refreshingly frank.” —Travel + Leisure
“Honest, reflective and often uproariously funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Humorous and gripping.” —Publishers Weekly
“Witty, honest . . . and amazingly sane.” —Chicago Tribune
“A landmark in travel literature.” —Boston Herald
“Starting out as the kind of innocents abroad who cause natives to snicker, [the Cohens] eventually make the tricky transition from tourists to travelers, and even if you would never want to do this yourself, they are charming travel companions.” —People
“Cohen proves to be a very capable writer, filling his narrative with interesting and amusing accounts.” —TheChristian Science Monitor
“Honest, reflective and often uproariously funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Humorous and gripping.” —Publishers Weekly
“Witty, honest . . . and amazingly sane.” —Chicago Tribune
“A landmark in travel literature.” —Boston Herald
“Starting out as the kind of innocents abroad who cause natives to snicker, [the Cohens] eventually make the tricky transition from tourists to travelers, and even if you would never want to do this yourself, they are charming travel companions.” —People
“Cohen proves to be a very capable writer, filling his narrative with interesting and amusing accounts.” —TheChristian Science Monitor
Product details
| Authors | David Elliot Cohen |
| Publisher | Ingram Publishers Services |
| Languages | English |
| Product format | Paperback / Softback |
| Released | 04.08.2015 |
| EAN | 9781504014021 |
| ISBN | 978-1-5040-1402-1 |
| No. of pages | 262 |
| Subjects |
Fiction
> Narrative literature
> Letters, diaries
Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989) Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales ebook |
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