In her best-selling memoir Wild, American author Cheryl Strayed documents her three-month solo one thousand mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail through northern California to Washington. Occasionally humorous and often harrowing, Strayed’s narrative is one of healing, forgiveness, and self-discovery with, as luck would have it, a literal journey illustrative of the figurative one. […]
Travel Memoirs
Travel Memoir of the Month: Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
In her best-selling travel memoir Almost French, Australian journalist Sarah Turnbull documents her trip to Paris to visit a French lawyer she meets while on assignment in Budapest, only to find herself, drawn to both the man and the city, unable to leave. At the risk of ruining the ending, Turnbull marries the lawyer and […]