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Year the World Was Mine

An Anglophile Hits a Half Century
  • ISBN-13: 9780761871569
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: HAMILTON BOOKS
  • By Rochelle Almeida
  • Price: AUD $60.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/2019
  • Format: Paperback (222.00mm X 151.00mm) 256 pages Weight: 390g
  • Categories: Travel & holiday [WT]
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What happens when a pre-menopausal matron, afflicted with Anglophilia, leaves home and hearth to spend time working in her dream location, London, the same year she hits a chronological half-century? Bizarre encounters and hair-raising adventures come flying at her...that's what! This fast-paced memoir chronicles an unusual year spent by an Indian-born professor from an American university who undertook field-research in the United Kingdom. In the process, she dodged a global fiscal crisis, was impacted by terrorist activity in her native Bombay, faced sudden homelessness, and coped with debilitating physical constraints caused by an excruciating foot ailment called plantar fasciitis. While she scours Europe during weekends as a footloose solo backpacker accumulating hilarious experiences among a motley lot in youth hostels, stalks royalty in their favorite stomping grounds, and becomes a coconspirator in helping an American friend find Mr. Right, the author provides a page-turning narrative about resilience and tenacity in the face of unexpected odds.
1.Acknowledgments 2.Chap 1-Blundering in Barcelona 3.Chap 2-Getting There...and Over There 4.Chap 3-Stalking Royalty in the Highlands 5.Chap 4-A Solitary September 6.Chap 5-Afflicted 7.Chap 6-An Aegean Odyssey 8.Chap 7-Acquiring Englishness 9.Chap 8-Half A Month of Mood Swings 10.Chap 9-Troubles in Northern Ireland 11.Chap 10-Transnational Christmas 12.Chap 11-Freezing in February 13.Chap 12- Homeless (Or Very Nearly) 14.Chap 13-Operation Husband Hunt 15.Chap 14-Tales of Several Cities 16.Chap 15-Eastertide Adventures in Belgium and with the Bard 17.Chap 16-Grand Reunions on Both Sides of the Channel 18.Chap 17-With Country Squires in Farringdon and Suffolk 19.Chap 18-In Oxford: It's Deja-Vu All Over Again 20.Chap 19-Last Hurrahs 21.Chap 20-Finally In France 22.Epilogue 23.About the Author
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