{"product_id":"9781741100334-secondhand-point-of-departure","title":"Point of Departure","description":"At an age when my mother was wearing sensible frocks and having an afternoon nap, I set off on foot to explore Vancouver in T-shirt, shorts and a floppy sunhat, my wrinkles hidden behind dark glasses, clutching a map that flapped in the breeze like a sail. When she was fifty-one years old, Pamela Hardy left her divorce, her rusted-out car and her low-paying job to hit the road with little more than a backpack and a thin wallet. For twelve months she traversed the globe - by rickety train through India, by snowmobile across the Arctic Circle, by elephant into the Nepalese jungle. What she discovered was not only the adventure she craved, but a new awareness of herself, her own unexpected strength, and a host of bizarre yet - mostly - lovable characters. In Under an Exotic Sun, Pamela takes you on a whirlwind tour through her year of travels and travails, via an American cowboy proposal, the Norwegian Vikings, a brush with Bollywood and the magic of the African plains. I realised I had spent all my life within boundaries, brainwashed by society and totally compliant. I had never had the initiative to walk on the wild side and think for myself. Now in my fifties I was at last finding","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48609191559387,"sku":"9781741100334-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/514c4dbf-902b-45f9-ad50-59130e6d8df8.jpg?v=1776434540","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781741100334-secondhand-point-of-departure","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}