Around the World in 50 years

Elayne Clift will read from and discuss her 13th book Around the World in Fifty Years: Travel Tales from a Not So Innocent Abroad (a collection of selected stories about her global travels told in prose and poetry.) Clift has visited almost 100 countries on every continent for both work and pleasure.  Unlike Fodor’s Guide, this collection shares personal stories, photographs and postscripts that range from poignant to hilarious. There are scenes from Indian railway stations to rural Romanian villages.  Along the way readers meet the people who made travel special, ranging from a professor in Jordan to a desert driver in Dubai to an elderly artist in France. One reviewer called the book “a treasure of armchair travel.” Clift will offer a related writing workshop Armchair Journeys on the following Saturday, November 16 from 10:30am to 1pm at the library.