Island of the Human Heart

By (author): Laurie Gough

Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award Finalist.Foreword Magazine’s Silver Medal for Best U.S. Travel Book.This first book by Laurie Gough is a diary of her journeys in Fiji, New Zealand, Malaysia, Bali, Italy, Morocco and North America.

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Laurie Gough

Lauded by Time magazine as “one of the new generation of intrepid young female travel writers,” Laurie Gough is author of Kiss the Sunset Pig (Penguin Canada) Island of the Human Heart in Canada which was (Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman’s Travel Odyssey) of the shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, and silver medal winner of ForeWord Magazine’s Travel Book of the Year in the US. Eighteen of her stories have been anthologized in various literary travel books, including Salon.Com’s Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance; AWOL: Tales for Travel-Inspired Minds; Sand in My Bra: Funny Women Write From the Road; Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I know Why: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure; and A Woman’s World. She has written for salon.com, The L.A. Times, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Vancouver Sun, Outpost, Canadian Geographic, The Daily Express, and In London, among others.

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Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award Finalist.Foreword Magazine’s Silver Medal for Best U.S. Travel Book.This first book by Laurie Gough is a diary of her journeys in Fiji, New Zealand, Malaysia, Bali, Italy, Morocco and North America.

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Dimensions:

273 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 1in
1lb

Published:

January 16, 1998

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Turnstone Press

ISBN:

9780888012197

Book Subjects:

TRAVEL / General

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Language:

eng

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