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| Title | : | Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman |
| Author | : | Alice Steinbach |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 295 pages |
| Published | : | March 12th 2002 by Random House Trade (first published 2000) |
| Categories | : | Travel. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography |
Alice Steinbach
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"In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Alice Steinbach. “For years I’d made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.” But somehow she had become dependent in quite 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.” But who was she away from the people and things that defined her? In this exquisite book, Steinbach searches for the answer to this question in some of the most beautiful and exciting places in the world: Paris, where she finds a soul mate; Oxford, where she takes a course on the English village; and Milan, where she befriends a young woman about to be married. Beautifully illustrated with postcards from Steinbach’s journeys, this revealing and witty book transports you into a fascinating inner and outer journey, an unforgettable voyage of discovery.Particularize Books During Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
| Original Title: | Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman |
| ISBN: | 0375758453 (ISBN13: 9780375758454) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.8 From 9572 Users | 840 ReviewsCriticize Containing Books Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
I loved this book! Reading it was like sitting at a table across from the author with a pot of tea between us. Parts of it brought tears to my eyes. This woman has a zest for life and an ability to make friends wherever she goes. I envy her! She falls in love in Paris, meets a bride-to-be in Milan, and learns ballroom dancing in Oxford. What an adventure! What a story!I'm giving up on this book - it just didn't keep me interested. It's hard for me not to just finish it as I hate leaving a book before the end, but I just can't do it.
What a wonderful book. I love the idea of just up and going to Europe for a year. I now have so many new places to see in Paris, England and Italy. And a new philosophy - M=EA (Mishap = Excellent Adventure) - definitely the way I travel. If you love to travel and to read then this is the book for you. I got it from the library but will be adding it to my collection for future reference.
I really enjoyed this book. It was a very easy read - she writes simply and the chapters are short. If you have ever traveled to Paris or Italy, you'll like her descriptions and how she connected differently to each city/area. Also, it is not just a travel book, but a book about self-discovery at an older age. A nice bonus: the author offers a great idea for how to keep a diary/document your travels: she write & mails postcards home to herself. What a wonderful idea!Hope some of you pick
I picked up this book because it was recommended on The Ultimate Reading List. The back cover called Steinback a "Pulitzer Prize-Winning" journalist, so I anticipated something special. Unfortunately, the author inspired the snarky in me right from the introduction. She said she decided to travel because she had dropped into "the habit of defining myself in terms of who I was to other people." Oh, so this was going to be one of those "find myself" books, was it? I'm rather suspicious of that
In 1993 Steinbach, then in her fifties, took a sabbatical from her job as a Baltimore Sun journalist to travel for nine months straight in Paris, England and Italy. As a divorcee with two grown sons, she no longer felt shackled to her Maryland home and wanted to see if she could recover a more spontaneous and adventurous version of herself and not be defined exclusively by her career.Her innate curiosity and experience as a reporter helped her to quickly form relationships with other
I read this because I enjoyed "Adventures of a curious woman" so much, and this one came first. You can tell how this one is the precursor -- the warm up journey, a bit more loose and rambling than the precisely scheduled "Adventures"...I had a strange reaction to this book, as the author is in her 50's and is just now taking the time to travel europe on her own, learn about herself outside the context of her fast-paced career (as a pulitzer prize winning journalist) -- as she talks about Paris,
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