Encounters In My Travels: Thoughts Along The Way (value Inquiry Book Series 174) (value Inquiry Book Series / Lived Values, Valued Lives)

This book details Harris’s travels throughout the globe among common people through sixty-seven countries over twelve years. She stayed in a harem, wore a burqa, and slept on a sidewalk through the biggest battle in the Algerian War! Questions evoke critical reading and philosophical thought, and the book includes a bibliography of suggestions for further reading. Lived Values, Valued Lives (LVVL) is a series of explorations, representing real and fictionalized biographies, autobiographies, and significant fragments of lives, concerning how a person's values help inform a person's life, how that life expresses those values, and the principled ways in which intelligent individuals deal with life’s vagaries. Each volume contains discussion questions and a bibliography of readings that make LVVL appropriate for courses exploring values clarification, career exploration, or contemporary cultural issues. CONTENTS......Page 6 Foreword......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 ONE: Police Encounters......Page 12 TWO: Alaska, 1957–1960......Page 40 THREE: Roads Traveled......Page 52 FOUR: War!......Page 76 FIVE: In the Muslim World......Page 84 SIX: Natural Wonders......Page 96 SEVEN: Built Wonders......Page 106 EIGHT: Other Encounters......Page 126 NINE: Epilogue......Page 136 For Further Reading......Page 140 About the Author......Page 142 B......Page 144 C......Page 145 F......Page 146 I......Page 147 L......Page 148 N......Page 149 Q......Page 150 S......Page 151 U......Page 152 Z......Page 153 Annotation. "This book details Harris's travels throughout the globe among common people through sixty-seven countries over twelve years. She stayed in a harem, wore a burqa, and slept on a sidewalk through the biggest battle in the Algerian War. Questions evoke critical reading and philosophical thought, and the book includes a bibliography of suggestions for further reading."--Jacket Because I have always striven to be an extremely law-abiding person at home and abroad, any police encounter comes to me as a shock and then burns itself into my memory.