No Fixed Address - Softcover

Hartnell, Jackie

 
9781740457521: No Fixed Address
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1740457528 ISBN 13: 9781740457521
Verlag: Pier 9, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

When Jackie Hartnell's husband dies unexpectedly, soon after retiring, Jackie decides to become a solo travellerand explore the world. She is initiated into the world of backpacks, walking boots and youth hostels and becomes an expert on travellingon a shoestring. No Fixed Address is an inspiring collection of tales about her travels to such far-flung destinations as Morocco, Iceland, Ireland and Thailand. Jackie walks through the Lakes District, goes barging on England's canals, bathes in the freezing cold lakes of Iceland and explores Morocco's souks. Along the way she makes new friends, both young and old. She also sets off around Australia in SKI 2,her camper van, named after the fact that she is 'spending the kids' inheritance'.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jackie Hartnell was born in Buckinghamshire, UK, and emigrated to Australia when she was 22. She was naturalised about 25 years ago and is very proud to be an Australian. Jackie's career, spanning forty years, journeyed from an electrical engineering apprenticeship, where there were nine girls to 300 boys, to thirty years in the computer industry, via primary teaching and assorted other attempts to find job satisfaction. She has now found it in retirement in her writing, which like Australia, feels it is where she should have been all her life. Jackie has been married twice -divorced once, widowed once -and has now has found her feet as an adventuring, journal-keeping woman.

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Verlag
Pier 9
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1740457528
ISBN 13 
9781740457521
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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