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From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine bi. She ventured to mostly landlocked countries, and places with tumultuous pasts and extreme sociopolitical environments, to help make sense of her tragedy. The avid reader is so excited to welcome daviss own shannon leone fowler for a reading, discussion and signing of her unique and moving memoir, traveling with ghosts on friday, august 18 th at 7. Traveling with ghosts national library board singapore. Ruth ozeki, new york times bestselling author of a tale for the time being. Author event traveling with ghosts with shannon leone. Traveling with ghosts a memoir ebook by shannon leone fowler. Shannon leone fowler is a marine biologist, writer, and single mother of three young children, living in london. Go search best sellers gift ideas new releases deals. About traveling with ghosts, a memoir by shannon leone fowler. Traveling with ghosts ebook by shannon leone fowler. Traveling with ghosts is a beautiful, haunting, heartbreaking memoir, made luminous by shannon fowler s obvious love of the natural world, her amazing eye for detail in exotic locales, and her depth and courage in the face of loss. I named the zookeeper rolf after rolf benirschke, the kicker for the san diego chargers, because he donated money with each kick to research of endangered animals at the san diego zoo. Sean was a tall, blueeyed, warmhearted australian, and he and shannon planned to return to australia after their excursion to koh pha.
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