All The Magic I Had Hoped For

By Justin Nobel

"I am drawn to the end," says writer Justin Nobel. "The end of the road, the end of the story..." At the end of a shady lane near Pineville, Louisiana Justin spends time with the ailing Chief of the Apalachee, once one of the greatest Native American tribes in the South-the Appalachian Mountains are named for them-, now all that remain are a few families. In Arkansas, Justin encounters a group of weary but starry-eyed diamond miners. And on a moonlit night in rural Oklahoma, local kids introduce him to backroading. He travels to the Arctic to learn about a lost Inuit way of death, and Japan to find the fabled "Granny-dump Mountain". This handsome travelogue contains a multitude of strange and captivating worlds. Justin's stories have been published in some of the country's most respected literary magazines; Tin House, Oxford American, Orion; as well as popular publications like Newsweek, TIME, Audubon and Popular Mechanics. His writing has been featured in Best American Travel Writing 2011 and Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692469613
• ISBN13: 9780692469613
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Zoom Books
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.1"