{"product_id":"a-time-of-light-and-ella-harvey-9781771605694","title":"A Time of Light and Shadow: To Asia, Africa, and the Long Way Home","description":"\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003e\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\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ella Harvey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771605693\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771605694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Ella Harvey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069198758143,"sku":"9781771605694","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f1a2d97b-4aa6-43e0-ab78-94e211ab72ed.jpg?v=1685423371","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-time-of-light-and-ella-harvey-9781771605694","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}