Elisabeth Eaves
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Verk av Elisabeth Eaves
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Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1971
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Födelseort
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- Columbia University (MA|International Affairs)
- Yrken
- journalist
- Organisationer
- Forbes
Medlemmar
Recensioner
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Statistik
- Verk
- 2
- Även av
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 349
- Popularitet
- #68,500
- Betyg
- 3.6
- Recensioner
- 8
- ISBN
- 9
- Språk
- 1
There's an air of condescension for us poor folk without the financial means or ambition to travel worldwide that permeates every chapter and can be hard to get by when she's pretty much talking about you, the reader.
As someone who loves to travel, I was expecting more vivid descriptions of where she's been, what she ate and what she saw but she provides only a handful of some colorful, introspective examples mostly during her time in Egypt and sometimes while on a remote beach or hiking in the jungle. Her narrative is a bit robotic with some pages wasted on how she got from point A to point B with little regard for her personal impressions of those destinations. Really, she could've been in the middle of a cornfield in Iowa because it didn't really matter.
Often, I found myself mentally screaming: Oh grow up already. You're in Peru, thousands of feet above seawater with access to brutally awesome hiking trails and stunning ancient Incan remains and you're whining, again, about a boy?!
Still, she's self-aware about her flip-floppy emotions and "gypsy eccentric status" (well put) and that's a refreshing acknowledgement that prevented me from totally giving up on her.
Despite all this, Eaves talent for travel writing is undeniable, I just wished I had read some of her other more travel specific work (for example her piece of Seville Flamenco dancing). Her analogies and metaphors can be charming. Sometimes not very robust, but it leads the reader beautifully - as if she were telling me her abridged life story over dinner. I have to remind myself, Wanderlust is a memoir based on her explorations as a 20-something kid then later into her 30's and hey, we're not all wise scholars at that age. But the explorations were mostly of a sexual, romantic variety and although she tries to explain the connection to travel, I really don't see it.
I really wanted to love Wanderlust because I felt like we could have been kindred spirits but I felt like I was enjoying her travels more than she did.… (mer)