{"product_id":"9781771605694","title":"A Time of Light and Shadow","description":"Author: Ella Harvey\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781771605694\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Greystone Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 31 Jan 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn inspiring travel adventure memoir that explores a young woman's quest to live life on the front lines, chasing adventure, and confronting the harsh realities of crisis work in Asia and Africa.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1975, a time of new freedom for women, Ella Harvey lived in Paris, worked as a nurse in war-torn Lebanon, and fell in love in Istanbul. Jostled between cultures, between love and loss, she found her way home. A year later, restless once again, she set off alone for India, a land of unsettling contradictions. A solo trek in the Himalayas completed that Asian journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1980 Ella was working for the International Red Cross, immersed in the heart-wrenching tragedy of a Cambodian refugee camp, and later that same year with the nomadic Issa in the drought-ridden desert of Djibouti, Africa. Faced with the immensity of poverty and suffering, her commitment to service was shaken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour decades later, in 2019, Ella returned to India, asking herself as an older woman, \"Would I dare do now what I readily did then?\" \u003ci\u003eA Time of Light and Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e explores one woman's complicity in privilege, a troubled past with her mother, and reflections on solitude and friendship, youth and aging, longing and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46852842094750,"sku":"ADS-9781771605694","price":44.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781771605694.jpg?v=1779063473","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781771605694","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}