Full name: So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places

Author: Elinor Burkett Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060524432 006052443X

At a time when Americans were so riveted by questions about their place in a newly hostile world and were swearing off air travel, Elinor Burkett did not just take a trip -- she took a headlong dive into enemy territories.Her yearlong odyssey began with her assignment as a Fulbright Professor teaching journalism in Kyrgyzstan, a faded fragment of Soviet might in the heart of Central Asia -- a place of dilapidated apartments, bizarre food, and demoralized citizens clinging to the safety of Brother Russia. She then journeyed to Afghanistan and Iraq -- where she mingled with tense Iraqis, watching the gathering storm clouds of an American-led invasion -- as well as Iran, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, China, and Vietnam. Whether she's writing about being served goat's head in a Kyrgyz yurt, checking out bowling alleys in Baghdad, or trying to cook a chicken in a crumbling apartment, Burkett offers an eclectic series of adventures that are alternately comical, poignant, and discomfiting. Similar books: Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman Around the World in 50 Years by Albert Podell On the Road with Charles Kuralt by Charles Kuralt Educating Alice by Alice Steinbach Roads by Larry McMurtry Kite Strings of the Southern Cross by Laurie Gough Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman A Woman's World by Marybeth Bond Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals by Wendy Dale The Size of the World by Jeff Greenwald At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider A Year in the World by Frances Mayes The Rough Guide to Women Travel by Miranda Davies Nothing to Declare by Mary Morris Little Princes by Conor Grennan Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant