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Item Details
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NOT NOW, VOYAGER
A MEMOIR |
| By: |
Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£15.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
158243588X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781582435886 |
| Publisher: |
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US |
| Pub. date: |
13 April, 2010 |
| Edition: |
First Trade Paper Edition |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
Since Marco Polo's explorations and Montaigne's travels, a lively dialogue has persisted about travel's pros and cons -- its excitement, novelties, perils, and misadventures. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins this dialogue with a memoir that raises serious and amusing questions."Not Now, Voyager" takes us on a voyage of self-discovery as the author traces how travel shaped her. She visits Miami Beach as an adolescent with an aunt and uncle and confronts the sensation of not belonging; she goes to Rome as a young woman and ponders the difference between ignorance and innocence; she ventures to Jamaica and witnesses acute political and social unrest; and she takes a family road trip to Montreal and watches her daughters come to their own startling realizations.In this memoir, Schwartz's history takes on new shapes, and her feelings about travel change as she does. Her story exemplifies a mode of travel: the mind on a journey, pausing, sometimes by design, sometimes by serendipity, lingering, backtracking, but always on the move. |
| Synopsis: |
Since Marco Polo's explorations and Montaigne's travels, a lively dialogue has persisted about travel's pros and cons ? its excitement, novelties, perils, and misadventures. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins this dialogue with a memoir that raises serious and amusing questions.Not Now, Voyager takes us on a voyage of self-discovery as the author traces how travel shaped her. She visits Miami Beach as an adolescent with an aunt and uncle and confronts the sensation of not belonging; she goes to Rome as a young woman and ponders the difference between ignorance and innocence; she ventures to Jamaica and witnesses acute political and social unrest; and she takes a family road trip to Montreal and watches her daughters come to their own startling realizations.In this memoir, Schwartz's history takes on new shapes, and her feelings about travel change as she does. Her story exemplifies a mode of travel: the mind on a journey, pausing, sometimes by design, sometimes by serendipity, lingering, backtracking, but always on the move. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Basic Civitas Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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