A journey with Elsa Cloud
Leila Hadley
The story of Leila Hadley and her estranged daughter who travel through the subcontinent on a journey culminating in a visit with the Dalai Lama.
Read Time: ~5.3 hr
A walk across America
by Peter Jenkins (1980)
About this book
The author begins his 1500-mile hike from New York to Louisiana with disdain for American lifestyles and ends it with a feeling of expectation and discovery.
Setting / LocationNew York City
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreA walk across America Lead Character
Readers who enjoyed this also loved
Mercer's belles
Roger Conant
Diary of a "New York Times" reporter who accompanied a shipload of matrimony-minded women and their agent, Asa Mercer, from the east coast to San Francisco and Seattle in 1866.
Florence
David Leavitt
**From Goodreads:** David Leavitt brings the wonders and mysteries of Florence alive, illuminating why it is, and always has been, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. The third in the critically-acclaimed Writer and the City Series-in which some of the world's finest novelists reveal the secrets of the cities they know best-Florence is a lively account of expatriate life in the 'city of the lily'. Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating-and so repellent-to artists and writers over the years? Moving fleetly between present and past and exploring characters both real and fictional, Leavitt's narrative limns the history of the foreign colony from its origins in the middle of the nineteenth century until its demise under Mussolini, and considers the appeal of Florence to figures as diverse as Tchaikovsky, E.M. Forster, Ronald Firbank, and Mary McCarthy. Lesser-known episodes in Florentine history-the moving of Michelangelo's David, and the construction of temporary bridges by black American soldiers in the wake of the Second World War-are contrasted with images of Florence today (its vast pizza parlors and tourist culture). Leavitt also examines the city's portrayal in such novels and films as *A Room with a View, The Portrait of a Lady* and *Tea with Mussolini*.
Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Donn Fendler, as told to Joseph B. Egan
A 12-year-old describes his 9-day struggles to survive after being separated from his friends in the mountains of Maine.