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About this Book:
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Memoirs of a Life Lived Backwards is not really an autobiography. Neither is it a travelogue, and not a culture study, but contains some of the best aspects of each.
Memoirs is the story of a farm girl from Douglas County, Oregon. She grew up, playing with neighbor children, riding her horse as rodeo queen, learning to appreciate music, and traveling by train to visit family members in the Midwest.
Silent on her young adulthood, marriage, and child-raising, DeeAnn picks up the story again when, at a late age, she is a student at the University of Oregon. During her university days, DeeAnn is challenged to consider teaching English in Taiwan. She begins studying Eastern culture and learning Mandarin. At an age when her contemporaries are thinking about retirement, DeeAnn goes East. While teaching English in Taiwan, DeeAnn learns to live successful in another culture, and begins traveling (to Hong Kong and China,) backpacking as the young travelers do.
Although her first trips are relatively short and taken with one or two other people, within a few years, DeeAnn is backpacking solo around Southeast Asia, visiting Laos, Cambodia, Tibet, Nepal and Burma (Myanmar).
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