The Banana Sculptor the Purple Lady and the All-Night Swimmer: Hobbies Collecting and Other Passionate Pursuits

We Americans love to look at ourselves. How we vote where we work what we think about church and school -- studying ourselves is a national pastime. What has been missing in all this self-examination until now is a book about the greatest national obsessions of all: the hobbies we pursue the collections and amateur sports to which we devote so much of our lives.. The Banana Sculptor the Purple Lady and the All-Night Swimmer chronicles the amazing variety of ways in which we relax compete with ot...See More