Where the World Was
eBook - ePub

Where the World Was

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Where the World Was

About this book

"As a poet and writer, [Rosemary Sullivan] knows that life is lived not as theory but as practice, that... you can understand nothing about a place without listening to individual people and their stories." — Margaret Atwood

Incomparable writer, activist, and world traveller Rosemary Sullivan has at long last written a book about herself, about her life quest to "meet the world, to celebrate its richness, to face its darkness."

And what a fascinating book it is! Comprised of 21 essays spanning 5 decades and multiple continents, Where the World Was offers a vivid portrait of a writer who is instinctively drawn to other cultures and places.

Whether writing about a solo vacation inside the Iron Curtain, meeting the reclusive writer Elizabeth Smart in a dilapidated cottage in the English countryside, reflecting on how Chilean society responded to Pinochet's coup, or tracking down the people who knew Svetlana Alliluyeva for Stalin's Daughter, Sullivan delivers a master class in cultural studies, human rights advocacy, and empathy for the human condition.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Where the World Was
  3. Also by Rosemary Sullivan
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Sufi Summer Camp, 1977
  10. Tracking Down Elizabeth Smart, 1978
  11. Moscow in March, 1979
  12. A Sandcastle in Prague, 1979
  13. A Passage to India, 1982
  14. Chile: The Phantom Country, 1985
  15. Elizabeth Smart: Bashing on Regardless, 1988
  16. Chile: Who Keeps the Lid on Democracy? 1992
  17. Haunting Havana, 1993
  18. A Tourist in Egypt, 1995
  19. Conversations in Mexico with Leonora Carrington, 1996–2009
  20. The Man Who Was Buried Standing Up, 2000
  21. The Postman’s Dream, 2001
  22. A Trip to Tarquinia with D.H. Lawrence, 2003
  23. The Trail That Led to Me, 2006
  24. Marseille and the Villa Air-Bel, 2007
  25. The Three Suitcases and Robert Capa’s Mysterious Falling Soldier, 2008
  26. The Passionate Historian, 2010
  27. Fred Stein: The Geography of Exile, 2013
  28. In Search of Stalin’s Daughter, 2016
  29. The Great Bear Rainforest, 2021
  30. A Note on Sources
  31. Acknowledgements
  32. About the Author