Life on a Carousel: A Non-Diplomatic Memoir
By Laurel Pardy
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Travel along on a journey to seek the elusive manatee lazing in a Costa Rican lagoon or climb the Rotang Pass above the snowline north of Old Manali; travel along on a journey to understand the many layered onion called diplomatic life.
This collection of articles and essays explores the vagaries of a peripatetic career: rushing headlong into an Indian posting with two infants; exploring Afghanistan in a rare time of near peace and hope; chatting with bishops and tribal chiefs; paddling a canoe through the Darien mangrove jungle; finding common ground with common folk; living high and learning low; seeking reason and belonging in the unfamiliar.
Laurel Pardy
Laurel Pardy is a descendent of the Protestant Settlers who arrived in Nova Scotia during the 1750's. She walked the same hills and coves, imagined Lunenburg as it had been and thought about her ancestor, Anna Elisabeth, who conquered the wilderness with only her faith and her homely woman’s skills.
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