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A Journey with Elsa Cloud
by Leila Hadley
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1998-11-01)
ISBN: 0140275371
EAN: 9780140275377
Binding/Media: Paperback - 624 pages
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Release Date: 1998-10-01
SKU: 01100
Condition: Used: Acceptable
Comments: Name on insidde front cover, yellowing of pages, some edge wear
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
In a memoir that Norman Mailer called the "best travel book I've ever read," Leila Hadley records a journey to India inspired both by her lifelong love of travel and by a desire to reconcile with Veronica, her estranged daughter, who was living in India and studying Buddhism. The book's title comes from Veronica's remark as a young girl that she wanted to be "the sea, the jungle, or else a cloud," thereby earning her homonymic endearment of Elsa Cloud.A Journey with Elsa Cloud describes the sensuous delights of India, explains sexual mores and myths of India, and speaks tellingly about a memorable cast of characters, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A Journey with Elsa Cloud is the record of a journey, a love story, and a beautiful work of art.
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Amazon.com Review
When she was young, Leila Hadley's grandmother told her that James Boswell, her great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, "may have been naughty, indiscreet, and intemperate, but he was an excellent journalist." Born to be a traveler and writer, Hadley has spent her life exploring India and Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and writing about it with luminous intelligence, unsparing insight, and earthy wit. This is an account of Hadley's tour across India with her estranged daughter. She evokes the smells, fruits, and colors of India, all the while trying to work out a new relationship with Veronica. Hers is one of the few voices that can do justice to India, with its inundation of the senses, history, art, bazaars, and humanity. Add to that the gentle inclusion of stories--her childhood, failed marriages, mothering traumas--and you've got a stirring travelogue and a powerfully beautiful memoir.
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