Journey of Miracles
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JOURNEY OF MIRACLES is a travel memoir, describing different countries in different eras. It covers a sixty year period, beginning with 1925 and ending in 1985.In KALLISTE (the most beautiful), Corsica is lovingly described by the author who, as a small child, lived in a mountainside villa with a panoramic view of the surrounding countryside. HAVEN FOR THE RICH AND TITLED describes the good life in the Monte Carlo of the thirties.Next, in THE INTERRUPTED JOURNEY, we visit a small village in eastern France, at the eve of World War II, where the authors cousin was both the village pharmacist and a busy archaeologist. As a consequence of the outbreak of the war, his unearthing of a Roman swimming pool and the adjacent villa had to be discontinued.JOURNEY OF MIRACLES is the authors account of her leaving Occupied France with her family and their journey through Spain to Lisbon, Portugal, to board an American cargo ship for passage to the United States.In NILE CRUISE we have a detailed itinerary of a six hundred mile archaeological tour of Egypt aboard a flat-bottom, wooden river boat - downstream, with the tide, but against the stream of historyTHE ASCENT OF MOUNT ETNA is a demonstration of the authors resolve to fulfill a life-long dream.A most subjective approach characterizes a trip to Bavaria in THE ROMANTIC ROAD, where the author contrasts the beauty of the landscape with the austerity of the Dachau Memorial Museum - site of the oldest Nazi concentration camp.A GLIMPSE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN describes a visit to Hungary and Czechoslovakia. In Prague, the author watched an anti-American (dubbed as anti-imperialist) program on state-run television. The following day she witnessed an orchestrated street demonstration.SACRED COWS AND MOGHUL PALACES is much in the form of an essay, contrasting Hindu customs and architecture with the majestic buildings of the sixteenth century Islamic rulers of India.Yvonne West´s JOURNEY OF MIRACLES,A TRAVEL MEMOIR (101 pp.
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