Word: travels
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...matter. North America is host to 17 species of ragweed, a coarse, hairy plant with a slightly noxious odor and small yellow flowers. In most regions it blooms from August until October, each plant producing a billion pollen grains during an average season. These grains, carried by winds, can travel up to 400 miles -- even out to sea, where they can bedevil sufferers seeking relief aboard a cruise ship. Other places once considered havens because of less airborne pollen -- Tucson and Phoenix, for example -- are no longer ideal. Immigrants from other regions have brought their lawns, bushes and mulberry trees...
...BOTTOM LINE: Another excellent adventure by the great grump of travel writing...
...result is Theroux's ninth and possibly best travel book, an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific islands, from New Guinea to Easter Island to Hawaii. His goal was to retrace, in part, the bold voyages of early Polynesian seafarers who gave this vast area a common culture, now corrupt and moribund. Theroux took the big hops by plane or ship. But his preferred mode of travel was a collapsible, 16-ft.-long French-made kayak, which he paddled -- carefully -- through dangerous waters infested by crocodiles, sharks and stinging Portuguese...
...delegates to the Earth Summit won't have to travel far to see an urban environmental disaster in progress. Rio de Janeiro has it all: air and water pollution on a grand scale, crumbling infrastructure, raging crime and sprawling slums. Rio even has its own troubled tropical forest, the remnants of which sweep up the hillsides behind the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema. Those beaches have lost much of their appeal to tourists, because the ocean waters are polluted and because beachgoers are vulnerable to the crime wave that has overtaken Rio in recent years. The pollution problem is grave...
Rudenstine has already started campaigning hardamong alumni. His travel intinerary for the yearreads like a frequent flyer's dream: New York,Washington D.C., Miami, Palm Beach, Sarasota,Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco andLos Angeles...