David Lamb (1) (1940–2016)
Autor de The Africans
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Sobre El Autor
David Sherman Lamb was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 5, 1940. He began his journalism career at 14, when he wrote a weekly column for The Milwaukee Journal about the Braves leaving Boston for Milwaukee from the perspective of a teenager. He graduated from the School of Journalism at the mostrar más University of Maine in 1962. He worked for The Okinawa Morning Star and United Press International before joining The Los Angeles Times. He left the paper in 2004 after 34 years. His first book, The Africans, was published in 1983. His other books included The Arabs, Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues, Over the Hills: A Midlife Escape Across America by Bicycle, and Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns. He also worked on the PBS documentary Vietnam Passage: Journeys from War to Peace in 2002. He died from lymphoma and esophageal cancer on June 5, 2016 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de David Lamb
A season in the Minors 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Lamb, David Sherman
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1940-03-05
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2016-06-05
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Alexandria, Virginia, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Educación
- University of Maine School of Journalism (1962)
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
war correspondent
historian - Relaciones
- Northrop, Sandy (spouse)
- Organizaciones
- United Press International
Los Angeles Times
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- También por
- 3
- Miembros
- 780
- Popularidad
- #32,630
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 75
- Idiomas
- 2
---update 4/2018...just finished re-reading it. I wasn't remembering all the details quite correctly, but think Lamb does a fine job throwing in history of the bicycle, of roads in America, of bicycling advocacy, as well as recounting details of his adventure. Seems dated now, 20-odd years after it's publication, but was the first bike touring book I read and I appreciate it being the one to grab my interest in this subject. Not the best of the bike touring books I've read, but certainly in the next tier.… (más)