Travel the globe with some of the great writers

Armchair travel during Winter

By Stacey Bloomfield

In the depths of winter I find that often the roads are a mess on my days off. I am stuck at home looking for a way to come through this unusually wet winter; I survive on books. The deeper we get into the season the more I wish to escape to someplace warm and far away. So these books helped me to travel, while still seated in my chair with the old wool blanket.

Around the World:
The Female Nomad, Rita Golden Gelman, 2002
In 1986, children’s book author Rita Golden Gelman, almost fifty, divorced her husband and got rid of most of her possession to live on the road. In the Female Nomad, Gelman talks about how she made her way around the world and the connections she made along the way. While she may not know the languages, Gelman connects with the different communities that she stays with by learning to cook with the women. Her descriptions of making tortilla’s from scratch and the Thai stews filled with coconut and lime leaves will make anyone hungry.

Finally I will leave you with one of my favorite authors, Isabel Allende. Women traveling on their own, has become one of her more recent themes. Ines of My Soul and Daughter of Fortuneboth tell the story of women traveling alone in times when it was not common. Ines of My Soul focuses on a woman who leaves Spain for the New World and her role as a conquistadora, through Peru and Chile. Her earlier book Daughter of Fortune tells the story of Eliza, an English woman from Chile who heads to the United States during the time of the railway expansion, following her love, and father to her soon to be born child. This is her tale of learning a new place alone, and the world she creates for herself there.

Here I have only mentioned the books that are closest to my heart, but when it comes to travel, there are so many more out there for you to explore and enjoy. I hope that you can find time to sit down for a while with your own book

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