by Leila Hadley (Author)
A Journey with Elsa Cloud starts when Leila, the engaging narrator, receives a call from an estranged daughter who, while living in the East, has become a student of Buddhism. Leila flies to India, and together mother and daughter travel through the subcontinent on an interior and exsterior journey toward understanding culminating in a visit with the Dalai Lama. This moving mother and daughter story is enlivened by richly textured descriptions and lyrical prose. 'The best travel book I've ever read.' -Norman Mailer
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Thorsons
Published: 17 May 1999
ISBN 10: 0722538669
ISBN 13: 9780722538661
`A ravishing memoir... Hadley's intense curiousity, empathy, stunning associations and sensuous prose play over inner and outer landscapes. No traveller, armchair or otherwise, should be deprived of this book's ripe pleasures.'
Publishers Weekly
Leila Hadley is the author of the award-winning GIVE ME THE WORLD, which chronicles a journey from Singapore to Naples made with her four-year-old son aboard a three-master schooner, as well as three other travel books. She is a member of PEN, the Society of Women Geographers, and the Explorers Club.