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Category: Africa

July 19, 2009July 20, 2009 Frank Bures

Six Wives and One Night Off

July 4, 2009July 4, 2009 Frank Bures

Hippies and Afropop

November 4, 2008 Frank Bures

The Roots of War in Africa

October 25, 2008November 28, 2009 Frank Bures

The Obama Effect (or: Obama is Beautiful World)

October 5, 2008October 5, 2008 Frank Bures

Small Press

September 21, 2008 Frank Bures

Best American Travel Writing 2008

September 17, 2008 Frank Bures

High School Teacher Fired for Teaching Harper’s Article About Magical Penis Theft

July 30, 2008January 24, 2010 Frank Bures

Interview: The Amateur Scientist

July 22, 2008November 23, 2009 Frank Bures

Destination: Ibadan

July 15, 2008January 24, 2010 Frank Bures

Interview: Bryant Park Project

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Frank Bures is the author of "Pushing the River: An Epic Battle, a Lost History, a Near Death, and Other True Canoeing Stories," "The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes," and the editor of "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology." He writes about culture, travel, science, outdoors, narrative and belief.

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  • Dark Shamans, Stolen Bones and a Deadly Obsession: One Anthropologist's Fateful Search for the Secrets of Kanaima (Outside Magazine)
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  • Best Book of the Year, 2011
  • The Bridge of the Horns
  • How To Be Wise
  • Hope in Small Things: An Interview with the late Binyavanga Wainaina (Tin House)
  • Close Call: How Canoeist Frank Bures Survived An Early-Season Capsize (Paddling Magazine)
  • Mad About Bikes (Madison Magazine)
  • The Mind's Eye: Poetry in Motion

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