GONE ASTRAY
20 short essays that create Downton Abbey and Succession in a Duck Pond, a guide to where to go AFTER you die, explain opera, what happens when you mix the DNA of a standard poodle with that of a woolly mammoth, and other diversions.
Illustrated by Pat Meier-Johnson
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by Russell Johnson
PATTERNS and DISTRACTIONS
Images from around the world of patterns and abstractions created by nature and humans, from a man-like shape in volcanic lava, to doves in a banyan tree, prom dresses on a rack, and the air intake of a Russian MIG fighter plane. Some express reality, some are abstract, some whisper a story or ask a question. Some are just pretty pictures.
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TALES OF THE RADIO TRAVELER
Russell Johnson tunes into the wavelengths of the world as he blends radio lore, science, and wry, sometimes irreverent humor in travel adventures in 18 countries. As a child growing up in Midwestern America, radio was his window on the world and the universe. Hearing the faint radio beeps of Sputnik passing overhead, the oily propagandists of Radio Moscow, a ham radio operator in Borneo, the million watt voices of preachers and hucksters, and Wolfman Jack howling at America from across the Mexican border demonstrated that there was a world far beyond his neighborhood – even the grip of gravity – a world he wanted to see for himself.
The story begins under a radio tower in a Minnesota swamp on the first day of duck hunting season, ventures out through the jungles of Nepal in pursuit of the mother of all chickens, and to the Fiji islands where he broadcasts a coup d’etat. He travels to South Korea where he helps its president save face, to Sri Lanka to watch Arthur C. Clarke redesign Mars, Munich where he joins a flea circus, and California’s far north where radio telescopes and crystal gazers seek signs of alien life.
“If you’re an armchair traveler, fasten your seat belt before starting this book. It will shoot you off to the most exotic places before plunking you down in situations that will leave you laughing or shaking your head.”
DON AND PETIE KLADSTRUP
Authors of CHAMPAGNE and WINE AND WAR
“You can almost hear Russ Johnson’s voice as he shares funny, well-versed stories about radio lore, his life on the air, and his adventures in sometimes hidden, often odd, yet always interesting places around the world.”
LARRY MAGID – CBS NEWS RADIO
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STREET LEVEL
A collection of photography from the streets, roads, and jungle paths of thirty countries by photographer, filmmaker, writer Russell Johnson. Places range from the rural southern USA and the streets of New York to the temples of Nepal and the jungles of Borneo, featuring holy men, fortune-telling gypsies, fishmongers, miners, mothers and children, and slices of everyday life.
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