Maiden Voyages (68 page)

Mary Morris and Larry O’Connor have traveled extensively throughout the world—both alone and together. They are married and live in Brooklyn, New York, with their six-year-old daughter.

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Curtis Brown & John Farquharson
: Excerpt from
Passenger to Teheran
by Vita Sackville-West, copyright © 1926 by Vita Sackville-West. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, London, on behalf of the author’s estate.

Eleanor Clark
: Excerpt from
Tamrart: 13 Days in the Sahara
by Eleanor Clark (New York: Atheneum, 1982). Reprinted by permission of the author.

William Collins
: Excerpt from
Love Among the Butterflies
by Margaret Fountaine (London: William Collins, 1980). Reprinted by permission of William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

Christina Dodwell
: Excerpt from
Travels with Fortune: An African Adventure
by Christina Dodwell (London: W. H. Allen/Virgin Publishing, 1979). Reprinted by permission of the author.

Doubleday
: Excerpt from
Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail
by Mary Morris, copyright © 1991 by Mary Morris. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc
.: “In Bogota” from
The White Album
by Joan Didion, copyright © 1979 by Joan Didion. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.

Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press
: Excerpt from
Italian Days
by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, copyright © 1989 by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison; excerpt from
A Season of Stones: Living in a Palestinian Village
by Helen Winternitz, copyright © 1990 by Helen Winternitz. Reprinted by permission of Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press.

Harcourt Brace & Company
: Excerpts from
The Stones of Florence
by Mary McCarthy. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company.

HarperCollins Publishers Inc
.: Excerpt from
My Journey to Lhasa
by Alexandra David-Neel, copyright © 1927 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., copyright renewed 1955 by Alexandra David-Neel; “The Big Smoke” from
Times and Places
by Emily Hahn, copyright © 1937, 1938, 1940, 1946, 1950, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970 by Emily Hahn (originally published in
The New Yorker
); excerpt from pages 20-29 from
Nine Pounds of Luggage
by Maud Parrish, copyright © 1939 by Maud Parrish; “The Deer at Providencia” from
Teaching a Stone to Talk
by Annie Dillard, copyright © 1982 by Annie Dillard. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

Jean Hawkes
: Excerpt from
Peregrinations of a Pariah
by Flora Tristan, translated by Jean Hawkes (Boston: Virago, 1987). Reprinted by permission of Jean Hawkes.

David Higham Associates
: Excerpt from
The Cruel Way
by Ella Maillart (Boston: Virago, 1987); excerpt from
Farewell Spain
by Kate O’Brien (Boston: Virago, 1987). Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.

Hodder & Stoughton Limited
: Excerpt from
The Gobi Desert
by Mildred Cable and Francesca French. Reprinted by permission.

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
.: Excerpt from
Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey
by Willa Cather, copyright © 1956 by the Executors of the Estate of Willa Cather. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

William Morrow & Company, Inc
.: Excerpt from
A Way of Seeing
by Margaret Mead,
copyright © 1970 by Margaret Mead. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow & Company, Inc.

John Murray (Publishers) Ltd
.: Excerpt from
A Winter in Arabia
by Freya Stark; excerpt from
Through Persia in Disguise
by Sarah Hobhouse. Reprinted by permission of John Murray (Publishers) Ltd.

North Point Press
: Chapter XVII, “I May Have to Shoot Him” from
West with the Night
by Beryl Markham, copyright © 1942, 1983 by Beryl Markham. Reprinted by permission of North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.

W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
.: Excerpt from
The Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism
by Robin Morgan, copyright © 1989 by Robin Morgan. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

The Overlook Press
: Excerpt from
Muddling Through in Madagascar
by Dervla Murphy, copyright © 1985 by Dervla Murphy. Reprinted by permission of The Overlook Press, Lewis Hollow Road, Woodstock, NY 12498.

Penguin Books Ltd
.: “Andalucian Shore” from
Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal
by Rose Macauley (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949), copyright © 1973 by Constance Babington Smith. Reprinted by permission of Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London, a division of Penguin Books Ltd.

Prentice Hall Press
: Excerpt from
Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon
by M.F.K. Fisher, copyright © 1991 by M.F.K. Fisher. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Prentice Hall Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York.

Random House, Inc
.: Excerpt from
Russian Journal
by Andrea Lee, copyright © 1979, 1980, 1981 by Andrea Lee; excerpt from
The Road Through Miyama
by Leila Philip, copyright © 1989 by Leila Philip. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
Random House, Inc. and The Rungstedlund Foundation
: Excerpt from
Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen, copyright © 1937 by Random House, Inc., copyright renewed 1965 by Rungstedlundfondan. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. and The Rungstedlund Foundation.

Reed International Books
: Excerpt from
Speak to the Earth
by Vivienne De Wattville (London: Methuen, 1940), copyright © by the Estate of Vivienne De Wattville. Reprinted by permission of Reed International Books on behalf of Methuen London.

Sheridan House Inc
.: Excerpt from
Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box-Car Bertha
, as told to Dr. Ben L. Reitman (New York: Sheridan House, 1942). Reprinted by permission.

Simon & Schuster, Inc
.: Excerpt from
Turkish Reflections
by Mary Lee Settle, copyright © 1991 by Mary Lee Settle. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited
: Excerpt from
Klee Wyck
by Emily Carr (Toronto: Irwin Publishing, 1941). Reprinted by permission of Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited.

Viking Penguin
: Excerpt from
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
by Rebecca West, copyright © 1941 by Rebecca West and Atlantic Monthly, copyright renewed 1968, 1969 by Rebecca West. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.

Carol Wilson
: “The Holyland Buffet” from
Views of the North: An Anthology of Travel Writing
by Gwendolyn MacEwen (Erin, Ontario: Descant, the Porcupine’s Quill, Inc., 1990). Reprinted by permission of the author’s family.