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Author Harris, Dixie Lee

Title Encounters in my travels : thoughts along the way / Dixie Lee Harris
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 144 pages) : portrait
Series Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; v. 174
Value inquiry book series ; v. 174. 0929-8436
Contents Foreword -- Introduction -- One Police Encounters -- Two Alaska, 1957-1960 -- Three Roads Traveled -- Four War! -- Five In the Muslim World -- Six Natural Wonders -- Seven Built Wonders -- Eight Other Encounters -- Nine Epilogue -- For Further Reading -- About the Author -- Index
Summary "This book details Harris's travels throughout the globe among common people through sixty-seven countries over twelve years. She stayed in a harem, wore a burqa, and slept on a sidewalk through the biggest battle in the Algerian War. Questions evoke critical reading and philosophical thought, and the book includes a bibliography of suggestions for further reading."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-132) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Harris, Dixie Lee -- Travel
SUBJECT Harris, Dixie Lee fast
Subject Travelers' writings, American -- Women authors
Americans -- Foreign countries.
Women travelers -- United States -- Biography
TRAVEL -- Essays & Travelogues.
Americans -- Foreign countries
Women travelers
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1423791959
9781423791959
9789401202015
940120201X