Her descriptions of India are excellent and her experiences, while not for me, are related in full expression. Which is what she does, traveling to India, and staying at a few places where one could hire a guide to take one into the jungle. She had a quest in mind, once she coukd walk again, to see tigers. Sounds familiar doesn't it? The housebound part of course, not the accident. Who suffered a serious accident that kept this usually active and traveling woman, housebound for almost two years.
An incredible memoir from a author and woman, who loves life in all it's many forms. Sometimes one finds a book, or a book finds them, at the perfect time. Written in over a hundred short chapters, All the Way to the Tigers offers an elegiac, wry, and wise look at a woman on the road and the glorious, elusive creature she seeks. And all unseen tigers, hiding in the bush, are referred to as "she." Morris connects deeply with these magnificent and highly endangered animals, and her weeks on tiger safari also afford a new understanding of herself. Her first lesson: don't look for a tiger because you won't find it-you look for signs of a tiger. So begins a three-year odyssey that takes Morris to India in search of the world's most elusive apex predator. When she was well enough to walk again (and her doctor wasn't sure she ever would), she would go "all the way to the tigers." Not all the way to the tigers." Disaster shifted to possibility and Morris made a decision. On Easter Sunday, when she was supposed to be in Morocco, Morris was instead lying on the sofa reading Death in Venice, casting her eyes over these words again and again: "He would go on a journey. Mary Morris was on the verge of a well-earned sabbatical, but instead she endured three months in a wheelchair, two surgeries, and extensive rehabilitation.
In February 2008, a casual afternoon of ice skating derailed the trip of a lifetime. In the tradition of Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Mary Morris turns a personal catastrophe into a rich, multilayered memoir full of personal growth, family history, and thrilling travel. From the author of Nothing to Declare, a new travel narrative examining healing, redemption, and what it means to be a solo woman on the road.
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