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A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life
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Biographies GeneralTravel Writing
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9781609522063
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: May 3 2022
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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
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.
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