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Letters from Everywhere

Woni Spotts · 2020

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Written in poetic prose with immersive imagery, *Letters from Everywhere* presents as a memoir wrapped in a poetic love letter to the world. On an incredible journey, Woni … lives in an isolated yurt on the Eurasian steppe and a hut on the Indian Ocean ventures into a dark, mysterious cave surrounded by a dense forest carpeted with delicate blooming flowers roams through bustling bazaars, night markets, museums, and colorful festivals follows paths along Holland's tulip fields, steps into hedge mazes on castle grounds, and edges the Cliffs of Moher praises the Hagia Sophia, Taj Mahal, and the Vatican’s art wanders around Angkor Wat, the Temple of Heaven, and the Tiger's Nest tours pyramids in Egypt, Roman Baths, Pompeii, and the remnants of the Greco-Roman Empire finds lost cities in the Aztec, Maya, and Incan worlds—Tenochtitlán, Chichén Itzá, Uxmal, Chacchoben, Edzna, Tulum, Palenque, Coba, Tikal, Caracol, Copan, Machu Picchu, Cusco, Sacsayhuaman, Sacred Valley, Ollantaytambo, Incan Trail, Isla del Sol and Isla de la Luna, Tiwanaku/Puma Punku, and Lake Titicaca marvels at Moai on Easter Island, Stonehenge, and Moorish palaces in Granada, Seville, and Cordoba stands in awe of architecture in Rome, Red Square, Park Güell, and Manhattan awakens in a hacienda in Mexico, a thatch-roof home on a farm, and a cave hotel in Santorini mulls over marriage proposals from a Bedouin, a Turk, and an Egyptian forgets to breathe at Soviet checkpoints sails on an icebreaker under Antarctica's midnight sun drifts on a dugout canoe in the South Pacific dives deep in a ship to explore the Great Coral Reef celebrates New Year’s Eve on the Nile slides on icy Scandinavian lakes and salt flats from Patagonia to Utah spots animal crossings as elephants, monkeys, and bovines pass by sits atop camels striding through sand dunes in Arabian, Gobi, and Sahara deserts views panoramas from a lush rice terrace, the Swiss Alps, and the Himalayas discovers agricultural practices and tastes foods across the globe spots penguins and whales in South Africa, the Galapagos, and Antarctica bird watches near Iceland’s sea cliffs, along Namibia's Skeleton Coast, and the Eastern Seaboard in the United States of America floats in a balloon over Cappadocia's unique landscape flies above the Blue Hole in the Caribbean Sea rides by tuk-tuk in Southeast Asia and by jeep on a Serengeti safari meets traditional people in the Congo, Botswana, the Amazon, and the Siberian tundra returns home to the Californ

פרטי הספר

שנה
2020
שפה
English
הוצאה
Woni Spotts
מהדורות
1
עמודים
123
ISBN
9798295860423

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