Vivian Huizenga

Around the World in 80 Emails Vivian Huizenga

This world travel journal is a candid visual and sensory experience. Quickly paced with vivid details of stunning events, smells, sights. Un opinionated observations are written in a tumble of adjectives more poetry than narrative. The effect is a sense you are in the middle of it all. Vivian a lone female traveler to multiple corners of the globe with a small backpack for the love of exploring culture, history and spirituality. "The Peruvian market was a jungle of slats, vines and tables and stilts. The Amazon River had receded and the stinking muddy isles of fish, monkey meat with their feet still on, claws, teeth, guts, tongues, medicinal branches, pastes, potions, coke bottles of herbs, gasoline and hard liquor were for sale." From working in the Arctic, climbing Kilimanjaro to busing though Saudi Arabia, this collection of snappy email entries come alive, sharing the tantalizing sensual richness of 45 different countries.