As Far as You Can Go Without a Passport: The View from the End of the Road

From the isolated town of Homer, Alaska, Bodett, a 30-year-old building contractor and National Public Radio commentator, collects thoughts and anecdotes about such things as the doubtful joys of halibut fishing and compulsive supermarket buying. PW noted that the book was distinguished by its ""good-natured and self-deprecating humor.'' (November)