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Brent Antonson

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in Vancouver, Canada

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Travel, Historical Fiction, History

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Bill Bryson, F. Dostoevsky, PJ O'Rourke, A. Solzhenitzen, Rick Antonso ...more

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Brent Antonson spent years living abroad including extended stints teaching English at universities and schools in Russia, Iraq, and China. He’s travelled widely including driving escapades in all 50 American states. Along with his younger brother and their father, he circumnavigated the Northern Hemisphere by train over five journeys including countries like Belarus, Mongolia, and North Korea. His book Of Russia; A Year Inside was published in 2008.

He’s written lyrics to several songs that have been recorded and released. One of his movie scripts, My Dinner with Zhivago, awaits production. Brent is tethered to the region of Vancouver, Canada (49.15'N 123.6'W) where he was raised and set free.

He contributes essays regularly to Planskip.or ...more

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	Of Russia: A Year Inside (Of China: A Year Inside, Of Iraq: A Year Inside Book 1) 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Remember that you must behave as at a banquet. Is anything brought round to you? Put out your hand, and take a moderate share. Does it pass you? Do not stop it. Is it not come yet? Do not yearn in desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. So with regard to children , wife, office, riches; and you will some time or other be worthy to feast with the gods. And if you do not so much as take the things which are set before you, but are able even to forego them, then you will not only be worthy to feast with the gods, but to rule with them also. For, by thus doing, Diogenes and Heraclitus, and others like them, deservedly became divine, and were so recognized.”
― Epictetus Epictetus, The Enchiridion of Epictetus

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