A Hard Place to Leave - Stories from a Restless Life

Author(s): Marcia DeSanctis

Literary

Restless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home.


Starting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and ending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories that span the globe and half a lifetime. With intimacy and depth, over quicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda, spinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpster in her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning essayist and journalist for Vogue and Travel + Leisure immerses us in places waiting to be discovered and some that may be more than we're up for. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, the odd rattlesnake, a random head of state, and many times over, the ghosts of her past. Each subsequent voyage leads to revelations about her search for solitude, a capacity for adventure, and always, a longing for home.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781609522063
  • : Travelers' Tales/Solas House, Inc.
  • : 0.01
  • : 01 May 2022
  • : {"length"=>["8"], "width"=>["5.25"], "units"=>["Inches"]}
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Marcia DeSanctis
  • : Marcia DeSanctis
  • : 288
  • : 288
  • : English
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback