The Year the World Was Mine
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The Year the World Was Mine

An Anglophile Hits a Half Century

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eBook - ePub

The Year the World Was Mine

An Anglophile Hits a Half Century

About this book

What happens when a pre-menopausal matron, afflicted with Anglophilia, leaves home and hearth to spend time working in her dream location, London, the same year she hits a chronological half-century? Bizarre encounters and hair-raising adventures come flying at her…that's what!

This fast-paced memoir chronicles an unusual year spent by an Indian-born professor from an American university who undertook field-research in the United Kingdom. In the process, she dodged a global fiscal crisis, was impacted by terrorist activity in her native Bombay, faced sudden homelessness, and coped with debilitating physical constraints caused by an excruciating foot ailment called plantar fasciitis.

While she scours Europe during weekends as a footloose solo backpacker accumulating hilarious experiences among a motley lot in youth hostels, stalks royalty in their favorite stomping grounds, and becomes a coconspirator in helping an American friend find Mr. Right, the author provides a page-turning narrative about resilience and tenacity in the face of unexpected odds.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Blundering in Barcelona
  4. Getting There . . . And Over There
  5. Stalking Royalty in the Highlands
  6. A Solitary September
  7. Afflicted
  8. An Aegean Odyssey
  9. Acquiring Englishness
  10. Half A Month Of Mood Swings
  11. Troubles In Northern Ireland
  12. A Transnational Christmas Season
  13. Freezing In February
  14. Homeless (Or Very Nearly)
  15. Operation Husband Hunt
  16. Tales Of Several Cities
  17. Eastertide Adventures in Belgium and With the Bard
  18. Grand Reunions on Both Sides of the English Channel
  19. With Country Squires In Farringdon And Suffolk
  20. In Oxford—It’s Deja-Vu All Over Again
  21. Last Hurrahs
  22. Finally In France
  23. Epilogue
  24. About the Author