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Island of the Human Heart

A Woman's Travel Odyssey

by (author) Laurie Gough

Publisher
Turnstone Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1998
Category
General, Essays & Travelogues
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888012197
    Publish Date
    Jan 1998
    List Price
    $17.95

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Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award Finalist.
Foreword Magazine's Silver Medal for Best U.S. Travel Book.
This first book by Laurie Gough is a diary of her journeys in Fiji, New Zealand, Malaysia, Bali, Italy, Morocco and North America.

About the author

Lauded by Time magazine as "one of the new generation of intrepid young female travel writers," Laurie Gough is author of Kiss The Sunset Pig (Penguin Canada) Island of the Human Heart in Canada which was (Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey) of the shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, and silver medal winner of ForeWord Magazine's Travel Book of the Year in the US. Eighteen of her stories have been anthologized in various literary travel books, including Salon.Com's Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance; AWOL: Tales for Travel-Inspired Minds; Sand in My Bra: Funny Women Write From the Road; Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I know Why: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure; and A Woman's World. She has written for salon.com, The L.A. Times, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Vancouver Sun, Outpost, Canadian Geographic, The Daily Express, and In London, among others.

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