A hard place to leave stories from a restless life
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 202...
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Travelers' Tales, an imprint of Solas House, Inc.,
2022.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Masha -- 2. The Precipice -- 3. Cold War Game Theory -- 4. To The Man at the Urinal in Prague -- 5. Un Matin de Septembre -- 6. Halloween -- 7. The Substitute -- 8. Love's Labour's Won -- 9. The Language of Sculpture, and of Words -- 10. Waiting for the Sun -- 11. Cape Town -- 12. Strangers on a Train -- 13. One Day, Three Dead Men -- 14. Green Pastures -- 15. Twenty Years and Counting -- 16. Traveling Solo in the World's Most Romantic Country -- 17. Milk, Bread, Butter, Chocolate -- 18. The After Season -- 19. Headlights -- 20. Connie Britton's Hair -- 21. The Offer that Refused Me -- 22. The Stories They Tell 189 -- 23. Dog Walk -- 24. Falling -- 25. Seven Drafts of Coffee -- 26. Petra or Bust -- 27. The Stick 223 -- 28. Into the Cold -- 29. Winter (With Apologies to Colette) -- 30. Time or the Sahara Wind -- 31. Take Me With You -- 32. Signs of Life and Death in Africa -- 33. He's Leaving Home -- 34. Willa Cather's Lavandou -- 35. Fear and Solace in the Big Bend -- 36. Brass City -- 37. The Voyage. | |
| 520 | |a 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. With intimacy and depth, 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. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, the odd rattlesnake, a random head of state, and many times over, the ghosts of her past. Each subsequent voyage leads to revelations about her search for solitude, a capacity for adventure, and always, a longing for home.--Publisher's description. | ||
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