SOLA : one woman's journey alone across South America

Field, Amy, author.

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SOLA chronicles the true story of a young woman's plunge from her pleasant narrow life into a rich foreign continent brimming with Panpipe-playing Zen masters, nighttime motorboat rides redlining through the jungle, hikes to Inca ruins and Patagonian glaciers, witches, mummies, goddesses, Brazilian bikinis, and a snow-covered volcano to climb -- accidentally. At the center of it all stands a quirky slightly-unstable surf guru who bends her mind w...

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ISBN:

9780996626408
0996626409

Description:

334 pages : black and white photographs, map ; 23 cm

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One woman's journey alone across South America
1 woman's journey alone across South America

Notes:

Includes glossary

Contents:

Prelude: New moon [poetry]
Part I: Costa Rica and Panama: The leap an the landing pad - The very long weekend - Pura Vida - Caribbean to the Pacific: Waxing Crescent - Welcome to Panama: First quarter
Part II: Chile and Argentina: Santiago - Vol©Łn Villarica: Waxing gibbons [poetry] ; Age of Diurnal inequality - Torres del Paine: Lunar eclipse - El Fin del Mundo
Part III: Paraguay and Brazil: Iguaz©ð Falls: Luminous flux - Amazon symphony - Salvador - The day I fell off a horse: Perigean tides ; Full moon
Part IV: Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador: The day an eagle landed on my back - Mineshafts, witchcraft and prison: Moon dog, moon bow ; Waning gibbons - Isla del Sol - The Inca Trail - Christmas in Cusco: Last quarter ; Waning crescent - Rainbow rice snacks
Part V: The return to moontime: New moon, old moon
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3286596

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