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David Jedeikin

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http://www.goodreads.com/davidjed

born

March 12, 1970 in Montreal, Canada

gender

male

website

http://www.davidjedeikin.com

twitter username

wanderrainbow

genre

Travel, Gay & Lesbian, Nonfiction

influences

Ursula K. Le Guin, George Orwell, Paul Theroux

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June 2010

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From his earliest memories, David Jedeikin has possessed an unquenchable thirst for world travel and — once he could read — for well-crafted writing.

A native of Montreal, Canada, when he was four his family decamped for a three-year stint to the Mediterranean shores of suburban Tel Aviv. He vividly recalls early road trips across the region — through the fertile Jordan Valley, the arid Dead Sea — even through the Gaza Strip before it became a war zone; as well as later forays to Amsterdam, London, and New York. He studied English and Communications at Montreal’s McGill University. In his youth he devoured classic science fiction — Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Ursula Le Guin — along with works by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Today,...more From his earliest memories, David Jedeikin has possessed an unquenchable thirst for world travel and — once he could read — for well-crafted writing.

A native of Montreal, Canada, when he was four his family decamped for a three-year stint to the Mediterranean shores of suburban Tel Aviv. He vividly recalls early road trips across the region — through the fertile Jordan Valley, the arid Dead Sea — even through the Gaza Strip before it became a war zone; as well as later forays to Amsterdam, London, and New York. He studied English and Communications at Montreal’s McGill University. In his youth he devoured classic science fiction — Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Ursula Le Guin — along with works by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Today, he counts writers of travel, philosophy, and modern life such as Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Douglas Coupland, and Alain de Botton among his major influences. Jedeikin infuses his writing with connections between the disparate and the unexpected — a refreshing, insightful touch sure to appeal to the broadminded, modern reader.

Over the course of his adult life Jedeikin has lived in Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Lansing, Michigan, Chicago, and Boston... a nomad even before his world journey. During this time he managed to co-edit a start-up Internet magazine; serve as assistant editor on a Canadian-French-Mexican made-for-TV production of Tarzan; and carve out a successful niche in San Francisco’s burgeoning technology industry. Wander the Rainbow is his first book, having grown out of a blog chronicling a unique round-the-world trip that took place in the wake of some intense life circumstances. After returning home he intended to create a simple photo book, but his blog entries and experiences cried out to be shaped into something more. He hopes his memoir elicits thoughtful discussion and amusement, and inspires others to head out on wanderings of their own. For the moment, Jedeikin has laid down roots in San Francisco, where he works as a software engineer, but the lure of further travel is never far from his mind.(less)

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David Jedeikin's Blog: Wander the Rainbow

Snow Safari

Okay, time for a day off.

This statement is a toughie for some of us on vacation, especially on shorter trips where we feel compelled to maximize our time. But it's something I learned to do on my big world trip, and can attest to its powers to enhance almost any kind of holiday.

So what the heck was I going to do in a ski town if I wasn't skiing (or boarding)?

A bit of shopping, for one: yes, it...

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Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East

by Pico Iyer

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American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville

by Bernard-Henri Lévy

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London

by Edward Rutherfurd

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David Jedeikin is currently reading: Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East by Pico Iyer	My rating:
Dec 16, 2011 04:14pm
David Jedeikin gave to: Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! by Ralph Nader read in November, 2011	My rating:
Another great idea that fell flat: Ralph Nader's bit of speculative fiction about "what if" the super-rich actually took on the task of explicitly saving the world (something many of us feel they should be doing with their oft-unfairly-begotten gains...more
Dec 16, 2011 04:13pm · see review
David Jedeikin gave to: This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich read in December, 2011	My rating:
Disappointing... I've admired Barbara Ahrenreich's writing and loved both "Nicked and Dimed" and "Bright-Sided", but I just couldn't get into this one. There's a point where legitimate progressive-style grievances degenerate into a rage-filled harang...more
Dec 16, 2011 04:09pm · see review
David Jedeikin gave to: Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman read in December, 2011	My rating:
Very interesting follow-on to Goldman's "Adventures in the Screen Trade" (where he coined what is arguably the greatest three-word boil-down of the movie industry, or perhaps any industry and its pundits' understanding of why things succeed: "Nobody...more
Dec 16, 2011 04:05pm · see review
David Jedeikin is currently reading: American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville by Bernard-Henri Lévy	My rating:
Dec 16, 2011 04:02pm
David Jedeikin gave to: Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life by Thomas Geoghegan read in November, 2011	My rating:
Fantastic, eye-opening insight into the "European model" and how it offers what many of us are looking for from our society in the United States. In spite of crisis and uncertainty, Europe is doing amazing things in forging a vibrant post-industrial...more
Nov 20, 2011 08:23pm · see review
David Jedeikin gave to: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich read in October, 2011	My rating:
A must-read for every American! For a country so consumed with "winning" and "confidence" and "fake it till you make it" this offers a worthy tonic, though her final conclusion of "spreading wealth" is a bit pat and simplistic. Her indictment of the...more
Oct 07, 2011 12:01pm · see review
David Jedeikin gave to: Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham (Goodreads Author) read in October, 2011	My rating:
Haunting, gritty tale of a childhood Vietnamese "boat person" returning to Vietnam in the late-1990s (right before the country really took off as a tourist destination). His encounters with his own forebears and their reaction to him, a "viet-kieu" (...more
Oct 07, 2011 11:58am · see review
David Jedeikin gave to: The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World. by Amanda Pressner read in September, 2011	My rating:
Inspirational, sprawling tale of three gals doing the increasingly-popular year-long career break around the world.
Oct 07, 2011 11:56am · see review