The Itinerant Pleasure Seeker

Thurbin strikes that balance between personal memoir and real-life situations that everyone can relate to. Her book is comprised of a series of vignettes. The biographical accounts of Thurbin's adventures and misdaventures make no effort to hide the author's own shortcomings and misjudgments. She guides her readers through her travels and invites them to laugh with, and at times, at her. Some will take the reader to far-flung and remote destinations such as Siberia and Mongolia, and others provide glimpses into the lives and lifestyles of those closer to home. The book is written in chronological order, but each chapter tells a story and can stand on its own; So it can be read either in its entirety or as individual chapters that are of particular interest to the reader. While it does not hold itself out as a travel guide, it is in essence a travelogue, and contains much useful and interesting information about the various places the author's own travels have taken her. Travelers - both those who have a bit of the wanderlust themselves and the armchair variety - will appreciate the descriptions of the journeys undertaken to destinations far and near. Those readers familiar with independent travel will appreciate the one essential for every trip - a sense of humour - and it is here in abundance. These adventures describe her often precarious, but always interesting forays that will no doubt leave readers wanting more.