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"From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming...
2) Nomad's Land
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A memoir of desert travel-by camel and horseback-from a beloved author An internationally renowned writer of mystery fiction, Mary Roberts Rinehart knows her way around an exotic setting. When faced with the Pyramids, the Nile, and the sprawling Egyptian desert in her own life, she does not fall in with the crowd of tourists waiting in line at the tombs of the Pharaohs. Instead, she hikes up her skirt, plants her pumps in the sand, and hops on a camel....
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Rollicking travel parody by George Shepard Chappell published in 1923 "with seventeen full page illustrations" ("from photographs taken for the Super-Feature Film of Dr. Traprock's story recently released by the All-for-Art Production Co. of Derby, Conn.) Excerpt: ""Allah! Allah! Bishmillah. El Traprock, Dhub ak Moplah!... Wullahy! Wullahy!" Long, long after their echoes have died away the cries of my desert men ring on my ears. Still do I see myself...
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