Bibliograph

The same river twice, a memoir of dirtbag backpackers, bomb shelters, and bad travel, Pam Mandel

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The same river twice, a memoir of dirtbag backpackers, bomb shelters, and bad travel, Pam Mandel

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The same river twice

Oclc number

1202664116

Responsibility statement

Pam Mandel

Sub title

a memoir of dirtbag backpackers, bomb shelters, and bad travel

Summary

A product of beige California suburbs, Mandel was overlooked and unexceptional. When her father ships her off on a youth group tour of Israel, he inadvertently catapults his seventeen-year-old daughter into a world of angry European backpackers, seize-the-day Israelis, and the fall out of cold war-era politics. Border violence hadn't been on the birthright tour agenda. But then neither had domestic violence, going broke, getting wasted, getting sick, or getting lost. With no guidance and no particular plan, utterly unprepared for what lies ahead, Mandel says yes to everything and everyone, embarking on an adventure across three continents and thousands of miles, from a cold water London flat to rural Pakistan, from the Nile River Delta to the snowy peaks of Ladakh and finally, back home to California, determined to shape a life that is truly hers

Target audience

adult

Classification

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