description: Of Many Lands is a journal for people brought up in foreign countries. It is designed to help those "of many lands" in the process of putting together the story of their lives. It consists of a series of excerpts that describe experiences the author, Sara Taber, had at different ages in different countries, and that traverse a variety of issues present for the nomadic child. The excerpts, followed by prompts or questions posed to the reader, are designed to evoke life experiences across the ages of childhood and young adulthood. They range over the various elements of the foreign child's life, passing from friendships to school experiences, to family traditions, to responses to one's home country and other countries, and on through the joys and challenges of the nomadic childhood. By presenting her specific memories of the tumbling emotions and sensory experiences that accompanied the process of growing up overseas, she hopes to inspire other travelers to call up and gather together their own potent concrete memories and experiences, and in this way, to help them along the way to assemble their own life story, to affirm who they are.About The AuthorSara Mansfied Taber lived in Taiwan, Japan, East Malaysia, Vietnam, the Netherlands, and the United States as a child. She was educated at Carleton College, the University of Washington, and Harvard University, earning a master's degree in social work and a doctorate in human development with specialty in cross-cultural human development. A writer, teacher, and editor, she has worked in the past as a social worker, university professor, and ethnographer. The author of Dusk on Campo: A Journey in Patagonia, she is working on a memoir of her traveling childhood and a book on French bread.
language: English
title: Of Many Lands: Journal of a Traveling Childhood
titlecomplete: Of Many Lands: Journal of a Traveling Childhood
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Foreign Service Youth Foundation