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Foreign Correspondences: A Traveller's Tales

Lesley Krueger

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Description:Lesley Krueger started travelling on her own as soon as she could. Propelling her was the knowledge that her two immigrant grandmothers had never felt at home in the New World. They remained foreigners in places that often baffled them. What was that like?In this travel memoir, Krueger weaves her own stories of life abroad together with her grandmothers’ tales, exploring the idea of home and away. Expatriation, the nature of being foreign, the importance of feeling part of a community: these things become crucial as she travels through India, Brazil, Mexico, Japan and both the U.S. and Canada.Sometimes things get funny: spending the night in a cheap hotel that proves to be a small-town brothel. Sometimes she meets danger: jaguar poachers in Brazil. Then there’s the time she finds herself on a Twin Otter flying through a storm in Labrador, and discovers the reason the plywood floor has holes in it.Some people say we displace ourselves not to find what we’re looking for, but to find out what is it we’re looking for. Whatever the reason, it’s visceral. We say we push off, hit the road, pull up roots, take off. Hit, pull, take, push—potent verbs, gut expressions.Birth is like that, a push from the gut. Fascinating, when you consider the New World obsession with being born again. Lesley’s grandmothers never were. Except, perhaps, in these searching words.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Foreign Correspondences: A Traveller's Tales. To get started finding Foreign Correspondences: A Traveller's Tales, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Lesley Krueger started travelling on her own as soon as she could. Propelling her was the knowledge that her two immigrant grandmothers had never felt at home in the New World. They remained foreigners in places that often baffled them. What was that like?In this travel memoir, Krueger weaves her own stories of life abroad together with her grandmothers’ tales, exploring the idea of home and away. Expatriation, the nature of being foreign, the importance of feeling part of a community: these things become crucial as she travels through India, Brazil, Mexico, Japan and both the U.S. and Canada.Sometimes things get funny: spending the night in a cheap hotel that proves to be a small-town brothel. Sometimes she meets danger: jaguar poachers in Brazil. Then there’s the time she finds herself on a Twin Otter flying through a storm in Labrador, and discovers the reason the plywood floor has holes in it.Some people say we displace ourselves not to find what we’re looking for, but to find out what is it we’re looking for. Whatever the reason, it’s visceral. We say we push off, hit the road, pull up roots, take off. Hit, pull, take, push—potent verbs, gut expressions.Birth is like that, a push from the gut. Fascinating, when you consider the New World obsession with being born again. Lesley’s grandmothers never were. Except, perhaps, in these searching words.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Foreign Correspondences: A Traveller's Tales. To get started finding Foreign Correspondences: A Traveller's Tales, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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