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Mark Orwoll

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Mark Orwoll is a veteran journalist and the author of three books: "Cross Purposes" (Pleasant Villain Press), "John Wayne Speaks" (St. Martin's Griffin), and "SAMS Teach Yourself e-Travel Today" (Macmillan), one of the first books on planning travel using the Internet, back in 1999.

For 30 years, he was on the editorial staff of Travel + Leisure magazine, and for half of that tenure served as the magazine's first International Editor. (He has been to 85 countries and counting.) As a freelance writer, Orwoll now publishes his travel features in such magazines and online sites as Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, United's inflight Hemispheres, the Saturday Evening Post, East-West News Service, Go World Travel, and numerous other outlets.
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John Wayne Speaks: The Ulti...

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Cross Purposes

4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Sams Teach Yourself e-Trave...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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“Prices are so high in New York! I went to a restaurant with a friend of mine in Midtown the other day. I looked at the list of entrees, and the cheapest thing was a plate of spaghetti for $30. "This isn't a menu," I said. "It's a ransom note!”
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“Prices are so high in New York! I went to a restaurant with a friend of mine in Midtown the other day. I looked at the list of entrees, and the cheapest thing was a plate of spaghetti for $30. "This isn't a menu," I said. "It's a ransom note!”
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“Palm trees decorated the skyline, so tall and thin they defied gravity, their explosions of furry branches looking like ack-ack bursts on the horizon.”
Mark Orwoll, Cross Purposes

“I don't like it when a priest gets premonitions like that. I worry enough on my own.”
Mark Orwoll, Cross Purposes

“The car was large enough for nine passengers, and Crossman, alone in the immense passenger compartment, felt like a boy wearing his father's hat and shoes.”
Mark Orwoll, Cross Purposes
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“Perhaps the real mystery of the Shroud of Turin, regardless of whether it is authentic or forged, lies in its profound allure through the generations and across the centuries, calling to something deep within us.”
Mark Orwoll, Cross Purposes

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