Not Now, Voyager - A Memoir (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Counterpoint
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	April 2010
Authors:	Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Dimensions:	209 x 139 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
Edition:	First Trade Paper Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-58243-588-6
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General Books > Travel > Travel writing > General
LSN:	1-58243-588-X
Barcode:	9781582435886

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