A Mother's World: Journeys of the HeartMarybeth Bond, Pamela Michael Travelers' Tales, 1998 - 213 páginas In stories close to home and far away, from Peru to Kenya and New York City to Ukraine, mothers recount adventures and experiences traveling with their small children, their grown children, and their own parents. They travel to find their adopted children, they become pregnant, and they recount the joys and pains of motherhood in a language that will move women and men alike. |
Contenido
The Willamette | 1 |
Mother to the World | 9 |
Where the Desert Blooms | 17 |
The Fourth of July | 22 |
Vincents Room | 30 |
Mama Bear | 39 |
Nexts | 48 |
Remembering Dorothy Parker | 51 |
Over the River and Through the Woods | 107 |
Mothers Cooking | 117 |
Christmas in Cairo | 123 |
Camping with Lucy | 134 |
The Places I Went When My Mother Was Dying | 141 |
A Hand in the Darkness | 148 |
You Cant Say Youre My Mother | 155 |
The Beat of Aeonian Drums | 163 |
Reflections in Venice | 57 |
Two for the Road | 64 |
The Anil Journals | 67 |
Lessons of the Rainforest | 77 |
The Guilt Trip | 84 |
Improvisation in a Persian Garden | 89 |
The Swimming Lesson | 97 |
Ten Blocks | 102 |
Whacked Upside the Soul | 169 |
Coming of Age on Bali | 173 |
The Magic Side of Time | 177 |
Work It Girlfriend | 183 |
Mother in a Strange Land | 191 |
Altitude Adjustment | 197 |
Acknowledgements | 209 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Referencias a este libro
A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust Marybeth Bond,Pamela Michael Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |