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Alice to Prague: the charming true story of an outback girl who finds adventure - and love - on the other side of the world / Tanya Heaslip.

Alice to Prague: the charming true story of an outback girl who finds adventure - and love - on the other side of the world / Tanya Heaslip.
Alice to Prague:
In 1994, with a battered copy of Let's Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic. Dismissing concerns from family and friends that her safety and career were at risk, she arrived with no teaching experience whatsoever, to work at a high school in a town she'd never heard of, where the winters are frigid and plunge to sub-zero temperatures. During her childhood on an isolated cattle station in Central Australia, Tanya had always dreamt of adventure and romance in Europe but the Czech Republic was not the stuff of her dreams. On arrival, however, she falls headlong into misadventures that change her life forever. This land of castles, history and culture opened up to her and she to it. In love with Prague and her people, particularly with the charismatic Karel, who takes her into his home, his family and as far as he can into his heart, Tanya learns about lives very different to hers. Alice to Prague is bittersweet story of a search for identity, belonging and love, set in a time, a place and with a man that fill Tanya's life with contradictions. Prologue: The muster -- The Belin Wall -- Adventures, ahoy -- Maruska and Zdenek -- First night at boarding school -- Gymnazium Sedlcany -- Stake in the leg -- Lessons in life -- Foreign correspondent -- You will not die on my watch! -- Sex and free will! -- Words and music -- Benesov -- Fairytale Prague -- Do I stay or do I go? -- Sumava weekend -- Last days -- Hello Prague! -- Velmi stary pes - Grumpy old dog -- Looking for work -- English house -- Finding the Ministry of Justice -- Love is for nothing -- Bowing before the High Court -- Finding language and music -- A-networking we go! -- Love is for nothing (part 2) -- A toilet in the kitchen -- Carp and Christmas -- Snow, glorious snow! -- Maturantsky ples -- Petrin Hill -- Zofin -- Alice Springs -- Return to Prague -- Loss -- Late autumn -- Tears -- 2002 -- Epilogue: Czech friendship -- Acknowledgments.

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Object Number Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date Reserve
31234092896 914.371 HEA
Adult Non Fiction   Middlemount Library . . On Loan . 9 Apr 2024
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ISBN 9781760529765
1760529761
Name Heaslip, Tanya author
Title Alice to Prague: the charming true story of an outback girl who finds adventure - and love - on the other side of the world / Tanya Heaslip.
Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin , 2019.
Description xvi, 342 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents Prologue: The muster -- The Belin Wall -- Adventures, ahoy -- Maruska and Zdenek -- First night at boarding school -- Gymnazium Sedlcany -- Stake in the leg -- Lessons in life -- Foreign correspondent -- You will not die on my watch! -- Sex and free will! -- Words and music -- Benesov -- Fairytale Prague -- Do I stay or do I go? -- Sumava weekend -- Last days -- Hello Prague! -- Velmi stary pes - Grumpy old dog -- Looking for work -- English house -- Finding the Ministry of Justice -- Love is for nothing -- Bowing before the High Court -- Finding language and music -- A-networking we go! -- Love is for nothing (part 2) -- A toilet in the kitchen -- Carp and Christmas -- Snow, glorious snow! -- Maturantsky ples -- Petrin Hill -- Zofin -- Alice Springs -- Return to Prague -- Loss -- Late autumn -- Tears -- 2002 -- Epilogue: Czech friendship -- Acknowledgments.
Summary In 1994, with a battered copy of Let's Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic. Dismissing concerns from family and friends that her safety and career were at risk, she arrived with no teaching experience whatsoever, to work at a high school in a town she'd never heard of, where the winters are frigid and plunge to sub-zero temperatures. During her childhood on an isolated cattle station in Central Australia, Tanya had always dreamt of adventure and romance in Europe but the Czech Republic was not the stuff of her dreams. On arrival, however, she falls headlong into misadventures that change her life forever. This land of castles, history and culture opened up to her and she to it. In love with Prague and her people, particularly with the charismatic Karel, who takes her into his home, his family and as far as he can into his heart, Tanya learns about lives very different to hers. Alice to Prague is bittersweet story of a search for identity, belonging and love, set in a time, a place and with a man that fill Tanya's life with contradictions.
Subjects Heaslip. Tanya -- Travel -- Memoir
Heaslip. Tanya -- Travel -- Czechoslovakia
Heaslip. Tanya -- Travel -- Czech Republic
Heaslip. Tanya -- Travel -- Czech Republic -- Prague
Australian travel writing
Travelers' writings, Australian
Travel writing
Young women -- Travel -- Australia -- Biography
Australians -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- Biography
Women travellers -- Anecdotes
English teachers -- Czech Republic -- Prague
Travelers' writings, Australian
Travel writing
Young women--Travel
Australians
Women travelers
Prague (Czech Republic) -- Social life and customs
Prague (Czech Republic) -- Description and travel
English teachers
Czechoslovakia--Prague
Genre Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Travel writing.
Travel writing.
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