Magical Sites by Marjorie Agosin
This intriguing group of travel journals reveals the voices of women who travelled in Latin America during the nineteenth century. From French nuns who left their homelands to establish convents in Latin America to well-bred English women who accompanied their husbands on business travels, these women discovered a world beyond anything they had known or expected and recorded it in their diaries. Includes previously unpublished work, as editor Marjorie Agosin found some of these diaries tucked away and forgotten in a musty convent library in Santiago, Chile. All entries show us the private thoughts and indomitable spirits of women who dared to move beyond the safety of hearth and home and in doing so, discovered not only new lands, but also themselves.
Marjorie Agosin is an award winning poet, and Human Rights activist. Her most recent book a novel for Young Adults I Lived in Butterfly Hill has won numerous awards among them the Pura Belpre medal given by the ALA. In poetry she has published The Light of Desire, Swan Isle Press and Ana a memoir for YA about Anne Frank. She is the Luella Lamer Slaner professor of Latin American Studies at Wellesley College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781877727948 |
| ISBN 10 | 1877727946 |
| Title | Magical Sites |
| Author | Marjorie Agosin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | White Pine Press |
| Year published | 2010-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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