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"Intrepid and empathetic, gifted
with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer...a harmonious collage of
worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully
lived." —Melissa Febos, The New York Times
Winner of the 2023 Lowell Thomas Award
"DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it's her
lushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read." —The Washington
Post
Vogue's Best Books of 2022
The Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2022
Restless
to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the
unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the
world and staying home.
Starting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and
ending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories
that span the globe and half a lifetime. With intimacy and depth, over
quicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda,
spinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpster
in her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning essayist and journalist for Vogue and Travel + Leisure immerses
us in places waiting to be experienced and some that may be more than
we're up for. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, the odd
rattlesnake, a random head of state, and many times over, the ghosts of
her past. Each subsequent voyage leads to revelations about her search
for solitude, a capacity for adventure, and always, a longing for home.
Contents
Table of Contents
1. Masha
2. The Precipice
3. Cold War Game Theory
4. The Offer that Refused Me
5. Un Matin de Septembre
Interlude: Halloween
6. To The Man at the Urinal in Prague
7. The Substitute
8. Love's Labour's Won
9. The Language of Sculpture, and of Words
Interlude: Cape Town
10. Waiting for the Sun
11. Goodnight Sweetheart
12. One Day, Three Dead Men
13. Green Pastures and the Ghosts of Rwanda
14. Twenty Years and Counting
15. The Romance of Traveling Alone
16. Milk Bread Butter Chocolate
17. Headlights
18. Connie Britton's Hair
19. The Stories They Tell
Interlude: Dog Walk
20. Falling
21. Seven Draughts of Coffee
22. Petra or Bust
23. Into the Cold
24. Winter (With Apologies to Colette)
25. Time or the Sahara Wind
26. Take me With You
27. Signs of Life and Death in Africa
28. He's Leaving Home
29. Willa Cather in Lavandou
30. Fear and Solace in the Big Bend
31. Brass City
32. The Voyage
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