Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your velvet-covered pangolin that few readers will be distracted by the loose grammar and exotic similes. Conroy will simply overwhelm them with his leapfrogging plots and romantic scenery: a movie-set Rome, a travel-book Venice and the postcard-pretty South Carolina coast. Too tame? Then just wait for the women who set fire to abusive men, the attack of the giant manta ray, and the general's daughter and the private who are blown up by a war protester's bomb while making love in a parked...
...Kansas, Texas at various points. Even Carter says she isn't really sure why her mother was always on the move. "Ask her," she says. "I've always woundered. She had wanderlust. She was young." Tracey's mother confirms Tracey's suggestion. "My biggest amibition in life was to travel. I had Tracey before I had the chance. She has that roving blood," she says...
...said her book draws from both her personal experiences as a Christian, and from her academic research of other world religions. Her first book, Banaras, City of Light was a study of the sacred city of Banaras, India, and its significance for the Hindus who travel there on religious pilgrimages...
From academia to ambassadorial travel, Wilson has followed a meandering path--almost like that of the Congo River, which Wilson voyaged with money from a Rockefeller Grant just after graduation...
...that the national chains have encroached on their more personalized local businesses. Some book lovers too feel these commercial giants have spoiled things by turning book buying into a mass-market experience. "You hear the clanking of cups and people waiting for tables," says Susan Moriarty, a Denver-based travel writer. "It's all too frenzied. I don't want to get picked up in a bookstore. Bookshops," she adds, "used to be a private thing between you and a book." How quaint...