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The Year I Followed the Sun (Hardcover)
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The Year I Followed the Sun (Hardcover)
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While many contemplate roaming the world, at 22, Laurie Rutherford
Pederson embarked on a solo journey of 365 days, beginning in
December 1976. She recorded her many adventures, sublime to
horrific, in twenty-seven journals from which this book emerged.
The Victoria, B.C. native worked as a travel agent, creating her
own itinerary to countries that intrigued her. She explored these
exotic locations, each replete with its historic and often perilous
political landscapes, using all means of transport: from a luggage
rack on a train in India to rickshaws to horseback, even a boat on
the Canal du Midi. Family friends in several countries provided
respites of gracious hospitality and rollicking entertainment; but,
to her credit, Pederson writes with equal appreciation of the many
strangers-locals and fellow travellers-she encountered along the
way. Her prose sparkles with hilarious interior monologues and a
cinematographer's attention to detail. From a near-fatal motorcycle
accident on Bali to a brush with death at the Israel-Lebanese
border, there is adventure, romance, fear and reflection. The
author left her secure home in Victoria as a young adventuress; she
returned a woman. Pederson's memoir is contemplative yet
spontaneous, capturing a time of great change in the world.
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