Wild Life: Travel Adventures of a Worldly Woman

Lisa Alpine

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Dancing Words Press, 2014

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Foreward Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Gold Winner for Travel. Winner 1st place for best travel memoir at the 2014 North American Book Awards. Also winner of the silver Solas Awards for Best Travel Story of the Year 2014.From licking a Monet in Paris, to pushing an abusive macho honeymooner off his sailboat in the shark-infested Gal pagos, to saving her toddler son from a charging bull elephant in Africa, these delightful tales will inspire readers to follow the call of a wild life and leave home with their doors unlocked.When you're hitchhiking about in foreign lands, whether in France, Morocco, or perhaps New Zealand, it helps-as California-girl Lisa Alpine discovered-to be young, blond, persistent, and female. And to get along, once you've reached an approximate destination in hardscrabble exotica, you should be friendly, fearless, and sometimes counter intuitively trusting. There is daring, humor, and even a bit of Eros in the fourteen stories that span her life from the innocence of eighteen, when she was struck with wanderlust, into middle age. I am a woman who wanders and wonders and writes, she explains. And what wandering there's been, beginning in Paris, where she tasted art by licking a Monet. In Vienna, she asked an old woman, who turned out to be a survivor of Auschwitz, where she might find cheap lodging and ended up as the woman's house guest. She met the chauffeur of Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones in Switzerland and was offered a job babysitting Richards's two children, but after witnessing a temper tantrum by Richards's live-in girlfriend, declined and took a job as a bartender, offering free drinks in order to get her slave-driving boss, who held her passport as ransom, to fire her. She had the sort of inevitable adventure that tests us all, coping with her mother's dementia before her death on Mother's Day, 2011. In a bittersweet way, it was probably her most admirable adventure of all. - Foreword Reviews'Lisa's love of travel and her fierce determination to push all boundaries, takes the reader with her on a thoughtful, fun and fearless journey. Lisa opens herself and the reader to the world and explores with courage, the physical world around her and the philosophical world within. - Maureen Wheeler, founder Lonely PlanetI never tire of talking to Lisa Alpine about her exploits, adventures, and fascinating life. She has carved a path that is an inspiration to any free-spirited, or secretly free-spirited, woman. - Constance Hale, author of Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch and Sin and SyntaxLisa Alpine's winning title tells much about her personal timeline, and the bestiary of good, bad, ugly or rare characters encountered in these sometimes breathless pages. - David Downie, author of Paris to the PyreneesLisa's stories are not only packed with the humor and adventure that comes from being a solo woman traveler, but also filled with compassion that cuts to the core of what travel is all about-a deep connection to a people and place found when we shed our protective armor and remember we are all human. - Kimberley Lovato, author of Walnut Wine and Truffle Groves.…

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Titre
Wild Life: Travel Adventures of a Worldly Woman
Auteur
Lisa Alpine
Éditeur
Dancing Words Press
Année de publication
2014
État de l'article
Good
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0984229361
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780984229369
Série
Livre 2 sur 3: Life Series

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