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Published by Bantam Books, New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, et al., 1990
ISBN 10: 0553346148ISBN 13: 9780553346145
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 198 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Pen markings on p. 198. Light foxing on page edges.
Published by Bantam Books, Sydney et al, 2003
ISBN 10: 1863254161ISBN 13: 9781863254168
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Paperback. Condition: Good. An engaging, witty account of the people, customs, food, and cult ure of Cuba framed by a fascinating approach to travel. With only a folding bicycle and a towable suitcase, Australian Lynette Chi ang spent three months touring Cuba, eshewing tourist hotels and typical itineraries in favor of an unpredictable day-to-day exist ence among ordinary citizens. She discovered a people who, despit e great privation, are warm, generous, and generally happy. Her n arrative covers equally well the challenges of travel on two whee ls and the surprises of life in the land of Fidel.
Published by Bantam Books, Sydney et al, 2004
ISBN 10: 1863254099ISBN 13: 9781863254090
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. When Gage decided to take a break from her magazine career in Man hattan to rebuild her ancestral home in a Greek village in 2002, her father's four sisters, who'd by then emigrated to Massachuset ts, were not amused. They predicted she'd be killed by Albanians and eaten by wolves. Even worse, they feared she would invite the curse of their mother?Gage's namesake?who, in 1948, was arrested , imprisoned, tortured and executed by a firing squad for plottin g her family's escape to the U.S. during the Greek civil war (Gag e's father, Nicholas, chronicled these events in his 1983 bestsel ler, Eleni). In rebuilding her grandmother's ruined home, Gage ho ped to reverse some of the devastation her grandmother's murder c aused. Those familiar with Under the Tuscan Sun?type expat tales won't be surprised when Gage becomes mired in massive amounts of bureaucratic red tape, but manages to fulfill her dream with the help of kind villagers. Her recounting of this odyssey is occasio nally maudlin, but the scope of her rebuilding effort is Herculea n enough to keep readers turning pages to see the finished produc t for themselves. Reconstruction of the original Gatzoyiannis hom e is overshadowed by the story's real meat: the building of a bri dge between an American and her tough-as-nails roots. Photos. Age nt, Andy McNicol at William Morris.