Bowing to Elephants
Book Feature - Bowing to Elephants by Mag Dimond
Book Feature - Bowing to Elephants by Mag Dimond
HBL Note: I know I just got back from an incredible trip to Spain (read about it here), but I’m already getting the itch to travel again! Does that make me a travel junkie? Bowing to Elephants by Mag Dimond is only briefly scratching that itch to travel…as soon as you’re done reading it the wanderlust will set in again and it’ll be time to start planning your next vacation. If you’re like me and you love to travel, pick up a copy of this book right away! Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - Bowing to Elephants by Mag Dimond
From the publisher:
In Bowing to Elephants, a woman seeking love and authenticity comes to understand herself as a citizen of the world through decades of wandering the globe. During her travels she sees herself more clearly as she gazes into the feathery eyes of a 14,000-pound African elephant and looks for answers to old questions in Vietnam and the tragically ravaged landscape of Cambodia.
Bowing to Elephants is a travel memoir with a twist―the story of an unloved rich girl from San Francisco who becomes a travel junkie, searching for herself in the world to avoid the tragic fate of her narcissistic, alcoholic mother. Haunted by images of childhood loneliness and the need to learn about her world, Dimond journeys to far-flung places―into the perfumed chaos of India, the nostalgic, damp streets of Paris, the gray, watery world of Venice in the winter, the reverent and silent mountains of Bhutan, and the gold temples of Burma. In the end, she accepts the death of the mother she never really had―and finds peace and her authentic self in the refuge of Buddhist practice.
Book Feature - Bowing to Elephants by Mag Dimond
