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Subject(s)

• Latter Day Saint gay people—Biography [Browse]
• Ex-church members—Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—Biography [Browse]
• Voyages and travels [Browse]
• Evans, Andrew 1975-—Travel [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Travel writing [Browse]

Series

• Living out [More in this series]
• Living out : gay and lesbian autobiographies. [More in this series]

Summary note

A devout young boy in rural Ohio, Andrew Evans had his life mapped for him: baptism, mission, Brigham Young University, temple marriage, and children of his own. But as an awkward gay kid, bullied and bored, he escaped into the glossy pages of National Geographic and the wide promise of the world atlas. Eventually ejected from church and shunned by his family, Evans embarked on an ambitious overland journey halfway across the world. Riding public transportation, he crossed swamps, deserts, mountains, and jungles, slowly approaching his lifelong dream and ultimate goal: Antarctica. With each new mile came laughter, pain, unexpected friendship, true weirdness, unsettling realities, and some hair-raising moments that eventually led to a singular discovery on a remote beach at the bottom of the world.

Contents

• Cold pitch
• Sandy Cay
• Sixteenth and M
• Ohio
• Virginia
• Two letters
• Atlanta
• Ethel, Doris, and Mabel
• Dixie
• Light blue
• Going home
• The shape of the earth
• Telmex
• Hannah
• Utah
• Chicken bus
• A place without guns
• England
• Milkman
• Panama
• Through the plexiglass
• Death in Colombia
• Close call
• Court of love
• Middle earth
• Bananas
• Medzhybizh
• A thousand miles of sand
• The laws of physics
• Rainy season
• Argentina
• Marching as to war
• The end of the world
• Pionero
• The Drake
• Antarctica
• The black penguin
• Epilogue.

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ISBN

• 9780299311407 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 0299311406 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 9780299311445 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 0299311449 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016041573

OCLC

959080703

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