Bowing to Elephants: Tales of a Travel Junkie

Bowing to Elephants: Tales of a Travel Junkie

In Bowing to Elephants, a woman seeking love and authenticity comes to understand herself as a citizen of the world through decades of wandering the globe. During her travels she sees herself more clearly as she gazes into the feathery eyes of a 14,000-pound African elephant and looks for answers to old questions in Vietnam and the tragically ravaged landscape of Cambodia. Bowing to Elephants is a travel memoir with a twistâ€•the story of an unloved rich girl from San Francisco who becomes a travel junkie, searching for herself in the world to avoid the tragic fate of her narcissistic, alcoholic mother. Haunted by images of childhood loneliness and the need to learn about her world, Dimond journeys to far-flung placesâ€•into the perfumed chaos of India, the nostalgic, damp streets of Paris, the gray, watery world of Venice in the winter, the reverent and silent mountains of Bhutan, and the gold temples of Burma. In the end, she accepts the death of the mother she never really hadâ€•and finds peace and her authentic self in the refuge of Buddhist practice.
Country USA
Brand She Writes Press
Manufacturer She Writes Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber unknown
ReleaseDate 2019-09-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781631525964

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