Elsewhere
One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel
$39.53
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
20 February 2020
Summary
Exhilarating, brave and full of wonder, Elsewhere is the story of a life lived in search of meaning. It will make you want to rush out to explore the world, to savour every moment and to hold close the people you love. ‘Utterly engaging.’ - Sunday Times
From her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last thirty years she has visited some of the most remote parts of the globe carrying little more than a battered r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784164379 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784164372 |
| Author: | Rosita Boland |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 20 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
Beautiful. A rucksack of memory gems that left my heart sore and full of wanderlust. * Ruth Fitzmaurice, author of I Found My Tribe *
Elsewhere is the perfect title for a travel book that is about more than just destinations. It’s about location and dislocation. And it is the sense of being away from the mundane world that makes the book special. * Michael Harding, author of Staring at Lakes *
Beautifully authentic writing, full of humanity and gumption * Irish Independent *
Utterly engaging * Sunday Times *
Outstanding … this is without a doubt my book of the year. Exquisite, courageous, captivating * Sunday Independent *
Boland brings us on a journey worth taking…strikingly candid…she certainly makes a thoughtful and engaging tour guide * Sunday Business Post *
Stunning … this multi-faceted book about travel, words, the heart and fate is, above all, a witness to the power of the human imagination * Irish Times *
A stunning memoir, uplifting. Cannot recommend it highly enough
Vividly written, wryly humorous and most of all honest, Elsewhere is a tonic of a travel book * RTÉ Culture *
About The Author
Rosita Boland
Rosita Boland is a senior features writer at the Irish Times, specialising in human interest stories. She was a 2009 Nieman Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. She won ‘Journalist of the Year’ at the 2018 Newsbrands Ireland journalism awards.
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