A Hard Place to Leave

A Hard Place to LeaveCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781609522087 Year: 2022 Publisher: Travelers' Tales Description: In these essays, Marcia simultaneously navigates the globe while carving out a second career as a travel writer for major magazines, while navigating her own past and the bumpy and sometimes complicated road of midlife. Marcias voice has quiet power, restraint and unadulterated honesty. She is unafraid to reveal her vulnerabilities, hurts and failures. Her

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781609522087
Year: 2022
Publisher: Travelers' Tales


Description:


·In these essays, Marcia simultaneously navigates
the globe while carving out a second career as a travel writer for major
magazines, while navigating her own past and the bumpy and sometimes complicated
road of midlife.

·Marcia’s voice has quiet power, restraint and unadulterated
honesty. She is unafraid to reveal her vulnerabilities, hurts and failures. Her
narrative style has won her many accolades, including five Lowell Thomas Awards
for excellence in travel journalism, and the 2021 Solas Award for Travel Story
of the year.

·Above all, her stories are about restlessless,
the human desire to keep moving. As such, her stories have joyful exuberance
and a sense of wonder, and pack a strong emotional punch.

·The essays appeal to anyone who craves a strong
storytelling voice, especially from a writer with an astonishing lifetime of
stories — working for Barbara Walters at ABC News, and traveling the world as
an international journalist.

·These rich essays dig deep into human vulnerability,
and concern the intersection of time and place, home and the road, the past and
the present, and will ignite the readers’ imagination.

·Marcia is an experienced working journalist, and
is deeply cognizant of cultural sensitivities. With a master's degree in foreign
policy from Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, she also comes to her
work with high intellectual awareness. Though her writing is full of wonder, her work as a traveler is not about what she discovers,
especially in developing countries, but rather, what the place helps her
discover about herself.

·Many of these essays have been pu