Frank Bures
Frank Bures is an American writer and essayist. He is the author of Pushing the River: An Epic Battle, a Lost History, a Near Death, and Other True Canoeing Stories, The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes, and the editor of Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology. He produces audio history tours for VoiceMap, and his work has been selected for the Best American Travel Writing, the Lowell Thomas Award and other awards.
Personal life
Bures grew up in Winona, Minnesota, graduated from St. Olaf College in 1995, and has lived in Tanzania, Italy, Thailand and other places. He lives in Minneapolis.Works
Books
- Pushing the River: An Epic Battle, a Lost History, a Near Death, and Other True Canoeing Stories
- The Shape of the World: Essays on Travel, Culture, and Belief from Rotary Magazine
- Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology
- ''The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes''