Full name: Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone

Author: Mary Morris Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312199418 0312199414

Traveling from the highland desert of northern Mexico to the steaming jungles of Honduras, from the seashore of the Caribbean to the exquisite highlands of Guatemala, Mary Morris, a celebrated writer of both fiction and nonfiction, confronts the realities of place, poverty, machismo, and selfhood. As she experiences the rawness and precariousness of life in another culture, Morris begins to hear echoes of her own life and her own sense of deprivation. And she begins, too, to overcome the struggles of the past that have held her back personally; as in the very best travel writing, Morris effectively explores her own soul while exploring new terrain and new experience. By crossing such boundaries throughout the pages of Nothing to Declare, she sets new frontiers for herself as a woman--and as a writer. Similar books: Educating Alice by Alice Steinbach On Mexican Time by Tony Cohan Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals by Wendy Dale On the Road with Charles Kuralt by Charles Kuralt Around the World in 50 Years by Albert Podell Kite Strings of the Southern Cross by Laurie Gough The World, the World by Norman Lewis Turn Left At The Trojan Horse by Brad Herzog Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach Roads by Larry McMurtry At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider A Year in the World by Frances Mayes Stranger on a Train by Jenny Diski The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter The Tenth Island by Diana Marcum An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Ann Vanderhoof