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Road to Ithaka


Road to Ithaka

A Memoir

von: Diane Campbell Thompson

4,49 €

Verlag: Iuniverse
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 19.02.2015
ISBN/EAN: 9781491755044
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 280

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Beschreibungen

Born in England during World War II, author Diane Campbell Thompson, a war child, tells of bomb shelters, air raid sirens, meager food, and clothing rations. In Road to Ithaka, she narrates an honest account of her life beginning with her birth in 1941.

Raised on the rugged north east coast, the beach and sand dunes become a happy playground. But as Thompson happily built sandcastles in the sand, her father built castles in the air. Home became shifting sand, and a series of moves eventually saw the teenager leave the family to live on more stable ground with her grandmother. Through selected journals and short stories, she shares the stories as she traveled across Spain on the famous Santiago de Compestella, trekked the meanest thirty-three miles in history, drove a dog team in the Yukon, spent afternoons with a grandchild, and watched forlornly as a parent descended into that abyss known as Alzheimers.

Sometimes introspective, sometimes humorous, always amusing, the stories and journals in this memoir reflect a free spirit in a world of endless possibilities.
This memoir shares one woman’s soul journey—from war in the 1940s in England to an empty nester’s quest for adventure in Canada, Alaska, and Spain.

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