All the way to the tigers : a memoir / Mary Morris.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Nan A. Talese, [2020]Edition: First editionDescription: 222 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780385546096
- 0385546092
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Main Library | Biography | MORRIS, M. M877 | Available | 33111010533095 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
One of NPR's Best Books of the Year
From the author of Nothing to Declare , a moving travel narrative examining healing, redemption, and what it means to be a solo woman on the road.
In February 2008, a casual afternoon of ice skating derailed the trip of a lifetime. Mary Morris was on the verge of a well-earned sabbatical, but instead she endured three months in a wheelchair, two surgeries, and extensive rehabilitation. One morning, when she was supposed to be in Morocco, Morris was lying on the sofa reading Death in Venice , casting her eyes over these words again and again: "He would go on a journey. Not far. Not all the way to the tigers." Disaster shifted to possibility and Morris made a decision. When she was well enough to walk again, she would go "all the way to the tigers."
So begins a three-year odyssey that takes Morris to India on a tiger safari in search of the world's most elusive apex predator. Written in over a hundred short chapters accompanied by the author's photographs, this travel memoir offers an elegiac, wry, and wise look at a woman on the road and the glorious, elusive creature she seeks.
"From the author of the classic memoir Nothing to Declare, a new travel narrative examining healing, redemption, and what it means to be a solo woman on the road."-- Provided by publisher.