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Plot Summary of Travels
"Bestselling fiction writer Michael Crichton describes his life and travels. It begins with his short-lived medical days, but most of the book fantastically tells of his adventures throughout the world including climbing Mount Kilamanjaro, exploring African wildlife, swimming with sharks, and becoming entranced by the paranormal in the Southwest U.S. desert."
Andrew So, Resident Scholar

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Plot
job/profession: - explorer
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Outdoors story Yes
Exploring: - animal watching/hunting

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - writer
Age: - 20's-30's
Biography of famous person? Yes

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 9 (quite a lot)
United States Yes
The US: - West
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK - Ireland
Asia/Pacific Yes
Asian country: - Southeast Asia - Pacific Islands
Africa Yes
Kind of Africa: - Arabic Africa - Black Africa
The Americas (not US): Yes
The Americas: - The Caribbean
Century: - 1980's-Present

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Book makes you feel? - encouraged
Is book humorous? Yes
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references
How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 0-25% of book
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