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Antelopes is a modern-day Gulliver’s Travels and a wicked comedy. Arizona lottery winners survive a plane crash on a remote tepui in Venezuela, forcing them to confront their own droll religious, sexual, nationalistic
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David Rich grew up as a farm boy on a ranch in southwestern Colorado near the Four Corners. His dad introduced him to tractors and cattle, and his mother to music and travel. After high school David received an alternate appointment to the Air Force Academy but ended up touring the country with an amazing group of fellow misfits in the fighting 529th Air Force Band. The Air Force was relieved to discharge him a few months early to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder. After graduation David was somehow admitted to the University of Chicago Law School and by some fluke began practicing law in Phoenix with Lewis and Roca, the firm that handled the Miranda case (which he had nothing to do with). He became an adjunct professor at ASU College of Law, supervising the legal clinic and teaching legal writing, to little effect. David tried private practice but found the cushy job of assistant attorney general more to his liking. His appointment as judge pro tem by the Maricopa County Superior Court was a resounding success because attorneys immediately settled any case to which he was assigned. He and his third wife decided they’d rather travel than work, so they saved every penny on a ten-year plan that took eleven years, retiring in their forties to RV the World.
Since then, he and his wife Mary have lived in almost every country on the planet. Travel highlights include climbing Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Roraima Tepui where Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela intersect; the Annapurna and Everest Base Camp treks in Nepal; the Karakorums, in Pakistan, which include six of the world’s fourteen highest peaks; the exotic Stans (particularly Tajikistan and Uzbekistan); Mali and Ethiopia; the national parks of Patagonia; Petra in Jordan and hundreds of incredible sights and far-reaching adventures, including a minor hostage situation in Serbia.
David has written dozens of travel stories for publications ranging from International Living to GoNOMAD.com. His website David and Mary Around the World, (MyTripJournal.com/RichWorld), has been featured on LonelyPlanet.com. In his first book, Myths of the Tribe (1993), he examined the influence of organized religion on ethics, government, and economics. The second edition of Myths of the Tribe, When Religion and Ethics Diverge, was published in 2018. In RV the World, now in its second edition, he chronicles a seventeen-year journey that took him through 170 countries on six continents, and how if he and Mary could do it, anyone can. His next book was published 2018, The ISIS Affair, a wicked satire of religion and nationalism colliding in Syria. Two crotchety old curmudgeons, in the tradition of Gulliver’s Travels, outwit ISIS and themselves at every turn, putting the fun back in fundamentalism. In 2019 he published Scribes of the Tribe, Our Greatest Thinkers on Religion and ethics, analyzing their greatest thoughts through the centuries. His latest book will be published in 2020, Antelopes, a satire on religion and nationalism set on Roraima Tepui where Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil intersect