This is a travel book written by a solo woman backpacker from India. That itself makes it unique. And it is. It describes an urge many of us might have had to chuck it all, and just travel around the world..or, go on a world cruise, as a post-retirement dream. The fact is, Shivya Nath is doing the former, after chucking her job and convincing (!!) her parents that this is OK.
Her descriptions of people and places as far as South and Central America, and some from our own country (tribal Orissa, Rann of Kutch) are fascinating, because mostly, she avoids the routine and goes and finds a place in the heart of the people she meets. One that I liked the best was her experience of living with a cacao-growing family, and getting addicted to unadulterated (with sugar and milk) chocolate! A volcanic crater lake (a pic is included) which she walked around reminded me of a visit to Lonar, a lake formed by a meteorite crater. Her take on veganism as a cause is heartfelt, though not many of us can take to it easily-no cheese pizza is hard to imagine, right?
A must-read for any traveller (even an armchair one), this is one book that'll stay with me for a while. She also has a travel blog called The Shooting Star.
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