In Spite of Myself (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Bradt Travel Guides, Buckinghamshire, 2026

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Paperback. In Spite of Myself is an eclectic, passionate travel memoir about life and love across many countries and one that will strike a chord with many a reader. Mary Fogarty grows up in Kenya, a painfully shy child, timid and fearful of all that Africa holds. Only through swimming does she gain some confidence to expand her boundaries and an independent life begins. Sometime journalist and travel guide but always an outsider (and always a swimmer) Mary Fogarty looks back on the thrills and spills of decades' worth of independent, spontaneous travel. Wherever she journeys, from Milan to Mexico and Perth to Peru, and from mountains and men to Speedos and souks, she feels marked by difference. Her teenage self is regarded as an African savage at her British convent school; in Italy, she is a country bumpkin in the city, yet the only foreigner in the village and, in both, the sole woman who drinks; in Australia, she is the lone 'Pom' in a Macedonian community; in Spain, the only single expat amid a community of couples. Sometimes following love, sometimes finding it once she arrives, Fogarty also celebrates the intensity of emotional and physical attraction flinging herself into relationships both good and bad, often with unlikely characters. Gawp as Fogarty meets an Egyptian doctor on the night train to Cairo; takes off across the desert with a Syrian bus driver to find a hotel where alcohol is served; shares a sleeping bag with a Sherpa to cure her altitude sickness on the descent from Everest; encounters an Omar Sharif lookalike in Australia, only to discover he is sleeping in his office, and growing marijuana in the office flower bed; and is nearly murdered by the new girlfriend of her Berber ex-lover in Marrakech. Simultaneously intensely personal and irresistibly universal, In Spite of Myself is for anyone who worries about being alone, who thinks they are too old or too plain or too shy to have adventures. As Mary makes clear through exhilarating, amusing storytelling, there is always a way and you can do it on your own. AUTHOR: After growing up in Kenya, Mary Fogarty has travelled whenever she can, acquiring languages and loving inappropriate men along the road. She spent time in Mexico in her early twenties and lived in Milan in her late twenties, teaching English. She has worked in publishing on and off since the 1990s and was a freelance medical journalist for over 20 years, but never stopped travelling. For four years she commuted to Perth (Australia), and then she switched to Spain, where she worked in a wacky hotel. Since 2014 she has worked in Marrakech (Morocco) as a travel guide, editor and translator. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, she is the presenter of monthly meetings at The Globetrotters Club, edits their newsletter, Globe, and regularly gives talks there about her travels. In Spite of Myself is her first book. In Spite of Myself: is an eclectic, passionate travel memoir about life and love - from mountains and men to Speedos and souks - across many countries. From Milan to Mexico, and Africa to Australia, journalist, swimmer and perpetual outsider Mary Fogarty revisits the thrills and spills of decades' worth of independent, spontaneous travel. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
In Spite of Myself (Paperback)
Auteur
Mary Fogarty
Éditeur
Bradt Travel Guides, Buckinghamshire
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1804699039
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781804699034

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