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A life on the road / Charles Kuralt.

Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997 (Author).

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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.

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  • ISBN: 9780399134883
  • ISBN: 0399134883
  • Physical Description: 253 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Putnam, [1990]

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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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Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997 > Travel > United States.
Television journalists > United States > Biography.
North Caroliniana.
United States > Description and travel.
United States > Social life and customs > 1945-1970.
United States > Social life and customs > 1971-
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Travel writing.

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