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Without reservations : the travels of an independent woman / Alice Steinbach.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PN4874.S682 A3 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinbach, Alice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Steinbach, Alice--Travel--Europe.
- Steinbach, Alice.
- Women journalists--Biography.
- Women journalists.
- Women travelers--Biography.
- Women travelers.
- Women travelers--Europe.
- Travel.
- Europe--Description and travel.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi,278 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2000]
- Summary:
- In the tradition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea and Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, in Without Reservations we take time off with Pultizer Prize winner Alice Steinbach as she explores the world and rediscovers what it means to be a woman on her own.
- "In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Alice Steinbach, a single working mother, in this captivating book. "For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow, and had relationships that allowed for a lot of freedom on both sides." Slowly, however, she saw that she had become quite dependent in another way: "I had fallen into the habit ... of defining myself in terms of who I was to other people and what they expected of me." Who am I, she wanted to know, away from the things that define me -- my family, children, job, friends? Steinbach searches for the answer to this provocative question in some of the most exciting places in the world: Paris, where she finds a soul mate in a Japanese man; Oxford, where she takes a course on the English village; Milan, where she befriends a young woman about to be married. Beautifully illustrated with postcards Steinbach wrote home to herself to preserve her spontaneous impressions, this revealing and witty book will transport readers instantly into a fascinating inner and outer journey, an unforgettable voyage of discovery.
- Contents:
- Paris
- 1. The Novice 3
- 2. Woman in the Hat 19
- 3. At Sainte-Chapelle 33
- 4. Fellow Travelers 49
- 5. Five Extraordinary Days 65
- London
- 6. The Sloane Street Club 85
- 7. Love Letters 109
- 8. Ladies of Small Means 129
- Oxford
- 9. Up at Oxford 149
- 10. A Cotswold Encounter 163
- 11. The Dancing Professor 177
- Italy
- 12. Mother of the Bride 189
- 13. We Open in Venice 211
- 14. Spanish Steps 233
- 15. Jane Eyre in Siena 245
- 16. Past Perfect 259.
- ISBN:
- 0375501886
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