<![CDATA[No Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey]]>

false <![CDATA[No Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255618805m/1528206.jpg 1528206 2 When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus. No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s funny and touching exploration of the life lessons embedded within The Odyssey, a legendary tale of wandering and longing that could be read as a veritable guidebook for middle-aged men everywhere. At age forty-four, with his first child on the way, Huler felt an instant bond with Odysseus, who fought for some twenty years against formidable difficulties to return home to his beloved wife and son. In reading The Odyssey, Huler saw the chance to experience a great vicarious adventure as well as the opportunity to assess the man he had become and embrace the imminent arrival of both middle age and parenthood. But Huler realized that it wasn’t enough to simply read the words on the page—he needed to live Odysseus’s odyssey, to visit the exotic destinations that make Homer’s story so timeless. And so an ambitious pilgrimage was born . . . traveling the entire length of Odysseus’s two-decade journey. In six months. Huler doggedly retraced Odysseus’s every step, from the ancient ruins of Troy to his ultimate destination in Ithaca. On the way, he discovers the Cyclops’s Sicilian cave, visits the land of the dead in Italy, ponders the lotus from a Tunisian resort, and paddles a rented kayak between Scylla and Charybdis and lives to tell the tale. He writes of how and why the lessons of The Odyssey—the perils of ambition, the emptiness of glory, the value of love and family—continue to resonate so deeply with readers thousands of years later. And as he finally closes in on Odysseus’s final destination, he learns to fully appreciate what Homer has been saying all along: the greatest adventures of all are the ones that bring us home to those we love. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part critical reading of the greatest adventure epic ever written, No-Man’s Lands is an extraordinary description of two journeys—one ancient, one contemporary—and reveals what The Odyssey can teach us about being better bosses, better teachers, better parents, and better people. 1520181 11 3 2008 No Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey total:35|5:2|4:19|3:11|2:3|1:0| 35 125 102 19 2 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 24 15:54:03 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 15:54:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 12:15:14 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 12:24:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 17:28:11 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 17:38:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 08 12:17:55 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 12:17:55 -0800 2008 The Odyssey the author traveled to the sites (or places hypothesized to be the present-day sites) journeyed to by Odysseus. And, on top of the great premise, Huler wrote a fantastic travelogue. 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