Overview
"""I love her courage and heart! Funny, poignant, wise, and woke--an ideal travel companion.""--Joan Walsh (The Nation, CNN). Joyful and informative Places I Remember: Tales, Truths, Delights from 100 Countries presents writings and illustrated photos in a memoir covering over 50 years of travel throughout the world. You'll find a range of unforgettable people and places through vivid personal experiences--good, bad and often, laugh-out-loud funny. ""With her charming essays and the delightful illustrations, Places I Remember speaks to both travelers and wannabes--including the growing numbers going solo.""--Bella DePaulo (author, Singled Out). Organized from A to Z, it rewards a binge or a browse, here and there. ""...the perfect gift...it tells little stories--poignant and funny and sad.""--Margie Goldsmith (forbes.com). Lea Lane is an award-winning author of eight books, and has contributed to a dozen guidebooks. She has written for magazines, websites, and newspapers, including The New York Times and The Miami Herald. She is currently a regular contributor to forbes.com. Greg Correll, former illustrator for The New Yorker and CLIO winner, has created stunning fine-art illustrations, based on her photos."
Full Product Details
Author: Lea Lane ,
Greg Correll
Publisher: Lea Lane
Imprint: Lea Lane
Dimensions:
Width: 20.30cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.803kg
ISBN: 9780578625102
ISBN 10: 0578625105
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 01 January 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
I love her courage and heart! Funny, poignant, wise, and woke--an ideal travel companion. --Joan Walsh (The Nation, CNN) With her charming essays and the delightful illustrations, Places I Remember speaks to both travelers and wannabes--including the growing numbers going solo. --Bella DePaulo (author, Singled Out) ...the perfect gift...it tells little stories--poignant and funny and sad. --Margie Goldsmith (forbes.com) ___ Amazon reviews: wonderful writer, but even more, a true lover of travel laughed out loud exquisite illustrations this book is delightful! witty and personal voice an ideal holiday gift lovely and evocative vignettes like hearing the stories from your most interesting friend scrumptious tidbits delightfully charming style feels like you're her friend I didn't want to put it down warm and witty you not only travel a world of places, but a world of people experiences, and emotions, all tendered with wit and perception illustrations are perfect each story is a little gem
Author Information
Lea Lane is an award-winning writer and communicator, author of Places I Remember: Tales, Truths, Delights from 100 Countries, and Travel Tales I Couldn't Put in the Guidebooks. She writes for magazines, newspapers and on websites, including Forbes.com, The New York Times, Salon, and the Daily Beast. I was a CUNY Writing Fellow in 2017, working with Leo Carey of The New Yorker and Jon Galassi of FSG. Will be a CUNY Fellow again in 2020.
