All The Way To The Tigers: A Memoir

"When Mary Morris was badly injured in an ice skating accident, it took a quote from Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice to get her out of her funk: “He would go on a journey. Not far. Not all the way to the tigers.” Morris, a longtime traveler and memoirist, decided that when she could walk again she would go all the way to the tigers, to India. The best travel memoirs offer readers three pleasures woven together: accounts of “what I saw,” “how I came to understand myself better” and “what I learned about the world” – and Morris’ memoir doesn’t skimp on any of them."