A life on the road / Charles Kuralt.
In "A Life on the Road,: Charles Kuralt chronicles his boyhood traveling around North Carolina with his social worker father, and wanting never to come home; his early days writing for newspapers and radio and television news, at a time when nobody even knew what television news was; his promotion at the ripe old age of twenty-three to CBS News Correspondent, and his adventures for ten years thereafter, circling the globe.--inside cover flap.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399134883
- ISBN: 0399134883
- Physical Description: 253 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Putnam, [1990]
- Copyright: ©1990
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Wanderlust -- Radio days -- The greenhorn kid -- Globe-trotting -- The runaway cruise ship -- Lieutenant son -- Rio -- Equator crossings -- Hollywood -- Ninety degrees north -- Boxes on wheels -- On the road -- Izzy and Larry and Charlie and me -- Celebrity -- Luck -- Down by the riverside -- Mr. Black -- Flight -- Aluminum tubes with wings -- Perils -- Animal tales -- What they say -- Brushes with the famous -- The dentist -- Regrets -- A place to come home to.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 917.3 KUR (Text) | 37810434466420 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Alexander Main Library | NC 917.304 Kuralt (Text) | 34269000239344 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | 917.304 KUR (Text) | 30664000165032 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Andrews Public Library | NC 917.304 KUR (Text) | 80605000761949 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | B Kuralt (Text) | 31111001207344 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Bath Community Library | R 917.304 Gene Roberts Collection (Text) | 38344101468856 | Adult Reference | Available | - |
| Beaufort Main | 917.304 K (Text) | 2000334214 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Belhaven Public Library | 917.304 (Text) | 38344410007643 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Charles H. Stone Memorial Library | 917.304 KUR (Text) | 30665000114391 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Clemmons Branch | 917.304 K (Text) | 0112505592017 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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