Just another place. ... By any of its names, Easter Island felt like home to me, the
only place in the world that ever truly did. ... I was a shy child then, and I grew into
a shy adult, ill at ease with people, lonely but most comfortable alone. ... time I got
to the South Pacific, I was in my early thirties, and I'd been looking for home all
my life—for the place I really belonged, the place where I should have been born.
Author: Lucy McCauley
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1932361995
Page: 352
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This best-selling, award-winning series presents the finest accounts of women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples — and themselves. The common threads connecting the stories are a woman’s perspective and lively storytelling to make the reader laugh, cry, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. From breaking the gender barrier on a soccer field in Kenya to learning the art of French cooking in a damp cellar in the Loire Valley to hitchhiking through Mexico in the 1960s, the points of view and perspectives are global and the themes eclectic, including stories that encompass spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, solo journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and encounters with exotic cuisine.