Rita Golden Gelman
Paperback | Pages: 312 pages Rating: 3.86 | 13975 Users | 1322 Reviews
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| Title | : | Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World |
| Author | : | Rita Golden Gelman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 312 pages |
| Published | : | May 28th 2002 by Broadway Books (first published May 22nd 2001) |
| Categories | : | Travel. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Adventure. Biography Memoir |
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“I move throughout the world without a plan, guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities.” —From the Preface Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of Rita Golden Gelman, an ordinary woman who is living an extraordinary existence. At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita left an elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of connecting with people in cultures all over the world. In 1986 she sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with sea lions on the Galapagos Islands, and residing everywhere from thatched huts to regal palaces. She has observed orangutans in the rain forest of Borneo, visited trance healers and dens of black magic, and cooked with women on fires all over the world. Rita’s example encourages us all to dust off our dreams and rediscover the joy, the exuberance, and the hidden spirit that so many of us bury when we become adults.Point Books As Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
| Original Title: | Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World |
| ISBN: | 0609809547 (ISBN13: 9780609809549) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Mexico Guatemala Nicaragua …more Israel Galápagos Islands(Ecuador) Indonesia Canada New Zealand Thailand …less |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 13975 Users | 1322 ReviewsEvaluate Containing Books Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
Four stars because I love travel writing from a female perspective. I relate to Rita a lot as she discusses her anthropology background and how this affects her approach to travel and interacting with locals. I also appreciate her sense of adventure and ability to laugh at herself. But I do agree with others that her writing is very self-indulgent and I rolled my eyes a few times. I felt the same way about Eat, Pray, Love. I wish I had the money and lack of responsibility to live and travel likeIm a sucker for a travel book. Especially when it takes me on adventures I wouldnt dare do on my own, much less with a guide. From the first pages of Tales of a Female Nomad, I was drawn in. The author, Rita Golden Gelman, began the journey with the end of her marriage. Newly free, she embarks on a round the world trip with the goal of immersing herself in different cultures and making new, international friends.Almost immediately, I am fascinated by her trip to a Zapotec Village in Mexico. How
This book is about friendship, about people of completely different cultures and how simple it really is for friendship to grow between all of us. In the author's words:"Communication is not difficult because we all share the sensations of human emotions, the need to affirm our sameness and the universal capacity to laugh."I highly recommend this book. Its message is wonderful. The stories told are very interesting.
Sigh . . . another person whose life is in upheaval decides she needs to know what the simple folk do, and goes a-traveling. The most tragicomic moment of complete un-self-awareness comes when the author reckons up what it would take to live in deep south Mexico for a year and decides it would be as little as $15,000!Honeybun, there are women raising five kids on one third of that where you were. And they're lucky.If this had been a male writer and about martial arts, it would've been the book
This is one of those memoirs that is all about ME. I did this, and then I did that, and then I did this. And that might be okay, if not for the fact that everyone is Gelman's book is infinitely more interesting than she. It's like being stuck on a tour bus with a chatty guide who is more interested in telling you about her experiences than anything you're seeing. Meanwhile, all the sights go streaming by.Gelman is the ultimate unreliable narrator -- she's kind of pushy, obnoxious, and
Eh, it's just okay. Golden Gelman's writing is, at times, boring and slow moving. Sometimes she irritated me with her very American idea that she can just waltz into poor countries and set up a home AND that people will invite her to stay in their homes with them. I realize it's probably very American of me to want advance notice when people stop by for the night and to be wary of strangers from different countries randomly asking me for a place to stay but... wait, wouldn't that seem weird to
Dammit, my review was just lost. I loved this book. Strengthened my faith in the human race. Incredibly easy and comfortable read, incredible story. Inspiring. Restoring. Not five stars, as it's not a literary masterpiece (or that's not for me to decide), but memorable and exceptional on that level.Merged review:I loved this book. So much so, I found myself crying while finishing it this morning, and walked around the house w/ it a bit (in addition to Nikki Giovanni's Bicycles: Love Poems), so I
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