{"id":27115,"date":"2021-02-08T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/?p=27115"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:01:16","slug":"new-coming-of-age-travel-memoir-restores-humanity-across-cultural-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/new-coming-of-age-travel-memoir-restores-humanity-across-cultural-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW COMING-OF-AGE TRAVEL MEMOIR RESTORES HUMANITY ACROSS CULTURAL BOUNDARIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. -->\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR,&nbsp;EDWARD&nbsp;STANTON:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_82164\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/50Kv7PmX7IQ?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Colorado and raised in California,\u00a0Edward\u00a0Stanton\u00a0has lived in Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, and Spain. He\u2019s the author of twelve books, some of them translated and published in Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese.\u00a0<strong><em>Road of Stars to Santiago<\/em><\/strong>, the story of his 500-mile walk on the ancient pilgrimage route to Compostela, was called one of the best books on the subject by the\u00a0<strong><em>New York Times<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Stanton\u2019s environmental novel\u00a0<strong><em>Wide as the Wind<\/em><\/strong>, the first to treat the tragic history of Easter Island, won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Young Adult Fiction and three other international prizes. While teaching at colleges and universities in the Americas and Europe, he\u2019s also published short stories, poems, translations and essays. The Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Spanish Ministry of Culture have supported his work with grants and fellowships. Recently his students and colleagues published\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cThis Spanish Thing\u201d: Essays in Honor of\u00a0Edward\u00a0F.\u00a0Stanton<\/strong>.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><br>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For More Information Visit:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/ls\/click?upn=TeZUXWpUv-2B6TCY38pVLo9qtP8bi1JDAoW3Sy1wRf-2BevMhBVwduKt2MxNPYC5BCcmAVkg_6iUyYUHcGfkQgMsHOKhNKnqATDC27ZTnhxb-2F-2BnNIAJ31zym2fbwZB1OBHXJAmsMkyjsCBU-2BOKLyrhUBwNyldfIQvTdzgxShj9g6fzFxPJ88hVIZjW-2FuitfIbMx-2B8NKYJBK1aLdbHWCZGhOPVmRDuMImjFDKzNfHWZ6LcxqPnRWGe96jGGTeB1aC6XflY-2F1cvqDdb7F9PYQjeLJo3Lv5eaByEhHSbYa0wcTbgu3-2B8Erk2BD3DmKWRpOhzF9KrXsHCy9vKQeLEaD711l1FmRp7x4-2BXOGsqlc09epeATtkMvcKjKtP4ud00mgP84wyZcl88pdaa8anD4zeR-2B18uJg9PIDx3hGnPBGsYHbD3YaesDsk-3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.edwardstanton.com\/index.html&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR,&nbsp;EDWARD&nbsp;STANTON:&nbsp; Born in Colorado and raised in California,\u00a0Edward\u00a0Stanton\u00a0has lived in Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, and Spain. 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