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Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey
Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey
Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey
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A passionate journey of love, discovery, and serendipity radiating from a remote Fijian beach to the far reaches of the globe. Heartwarming, funny, and wise, Laurie Gough has written a profound testament to the invaluable lessons of the road.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 1, 2011
ISBN9781609520526
Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey
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Laurie Gough

Laurie Gough is the author of Kiss the Sunset Pig: An American Road Trip with Exotic Detours, and Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman’s Travel Odyssey, shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in the U.K., and silver medal winner of ForeWord Magazine’s Travel Book of the Year in the U.S. Over twenty of her stories have been anthologized in literary travel books; her work as appeared in The Guardian, The Walrus, Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail, the L.A. Times, USA Today, salon.com, the National Post, and Canadian Geographic, among others.

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    The book that introduced me to Fiji and encouraged me to visit. Fun, light read on the tangles of a cross-cultural relationship.

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