"Restless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home. Starting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and ending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories that span the globe and half a lifetime. ... Over quicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda, spinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpster in her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning…mehr
"Restless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home. Starting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and ending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories that span the globe and half a lifetime. ... Over quicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda, spinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpster in her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning essayist, and journalist for Vogue and Travel + Leisure immerses us in places waiting to be experienced and some that may be more than we're up for"--Publisher marketing.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Marcia DeSanctis is a journalist, essayist, and author of 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go, a New York Times travel bestseller. She has won five Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers and is the recipient of two Grand Prize Solas Awards including the 2021 Gold Award for Travel Story of the Year. Before becoming a writer, she was a television news producer for ABC, NBC and CBS News. She lives in Connecticut.
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Table of Contents 1. Masha 2. The Precipice 3. Cold War Game Theory 4. The Offer that Refused Me 5. Un Matin de Septembre Interlude: Halloween 6. To The Man at the Urinal in Prague 7. The Substitute 8. Love’s Labour’s Won 9. The Language of Sculpture, and of Words Interlude: Cape Town 10. Waiting for the Sun 11. Goodnight Sweetheart 12. One Day, Three Dead Men 13. Green Pastures and the Ghosts of Rwanda 14. Twenty Years and Counting 15. The Romance of Traveling Alone 16. Milk Bread Butter Chocolate 17. Headlights 18. Connie Britton’s Hair 19. The Stories They Tell Interlude: Dog Walk 20. Falling 21. Seven Draughts of Coffee 22. Petra or Bust 23. Into the Cold 24. Winter (With Apologies to Colette) 25. Time or the Sahara Wind 26. Take me With You 27. Signs of Life and Death in Africa 28. He’s Leaving Home 29. Willa Cather in Lavandou 30. Fear and Solace in the Big Bend 31. Brass City 32. The Voyage Postscript
Table of Contents 1. Masha 2. The Precipice 3. Cold War Game Theory 4. The Offer that Refused Me 5. Un Matin de Septembre Interlude: Halloween 6. To The Man at the Urinal in Prague 7. The Substitute 8. Love’s Labour’s Won 9. The Language of Sculpture, and of Words Interlude: Cape Town 10. Waiting for the Sun 11. Goodnight Sweetheart 12. One Day, Three Dead Men 13. Green Pastures and the Ghosts of Rwanda 14. Twenty Years and Counting 15. The Romance of Traveling Alone 16. Milk Bread Butter Chocolate 17. Headlights 18. Connie Britton’s Hair 19. The Stories They Tell Interlude: Dog Walk 20. Falling 21. Seven Draughts of Coffee 22. Petra or Bust 23. Into the Cold 24. Winter (With Apologies to Colette) 25. Time or the Sahara Wind 26. Take me With You 27. Signs of Life and Death in Africa 28. He’s Leaving Home 29. Willa Cather in Lavandou 30. Fear and Solace in the Big Bend 31. Brass City 32. The Voyage Postscript
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