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Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey

by Laurie Gough · 1999

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This feisty, sexy, energetic tale of a young woman's solo journey through Fiji, Bali, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Morocco offers the best of memoir and travel narrative combined. Gough chronicles her encounters with both humor and wisdom as she covers the globe on her own. "Passionate and poetic." - San Francisco Examiner

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AsiaAsiaMore like thisLess of thisCanadaCanadaMore like thisLess of thisFijiFijiMore like thisLess of thisHawaiiHawaiiMore like thisLess of thisMalaysiaMalaysiaMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
long · 400 pages

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