Travelling with Ghosts - Shannon Leone Fowler

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Résumé :
After her fiance's death following an encounter with a box jellyfish, Shannon Leone Fowler embarked on a journey around settings associated with loss and grief to come to a better understanding of these aspects of life, travelling to Auschwitz, Sarajevo and the most poverty-stricken areas of Bulgaria and Romania. Her developing understanding of the worst of the human experience is documented powerfully here.

Biographie:
Shannon Leone Fowler is a marine biologist, writer, and single mother of three young children, living in London. Since her doctorate on Australian sea lions, she's taught marine ecology in the Bahamas and Galapagos, led a university course on killer whales in the San Juan islands, spent a number of seasons as marine mammal biologist onboard ships in both the Arctic and Antarctic, taught graduate students field techniques while studying Weddell seals on the Ross Ice Shelf, and worked as a science writer at National Public Radio in Washington, DC. TRAVELING WITH GHOSTS is her first book.