In his fourth book, and third documentary, Monte Dwyer explores the Grey Nomads - retirees travelling across the great Australian wilderness. Across his voyage, Monte cooks road kill, finds out who's pinching the toilet paper, and encounters sex, death, and even murder on the road. No story was shirked, and no topic was taboo in the timely expose on the grey nomads.
Monte Dwyer
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In his fourth book, and third documentary, Monte Dwyer explores the Grey Nomads - retirees travelling across the great Australian wilderness. Across his voyage, Monte cooks road kill, finds out who's pinching the toilet paper, and encounters sex, death, and even murder on the road. No story was shirked, and no topic was taboo in the timely expose on the grey nomads.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.
The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
When eleven-year-old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in Western Australia, he befriends a scrappy, one-of-a-kind dog that will change his life forever.
A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.
Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her down-to-earth grandpa, Bill Hale. Ryann bonds with a wolf-dog, Buck, and schemes to save him from a cruel dogsledder.