A travel memoir the author shares her trips the people she meets.These trips are special moments in her life her emotions.Really enjoyed traveling with her.#netgalley #randomhouseuk,

Elsewhere by Rosita Boland is a collection of essays by Boland about various places she has travelled to and her experiences and the people she encountered along the way. Alongside her travels, she also reminisces about events in her own life and how they have shaped and affected her. While I enjoyed reading about the different places visited by the author in this book, I was also moved by the personal recollections of Boland about her own life and personal experiences.. This is a book which I would highly recomend and one which i will enjoy re-reading again and again. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC in return for an honest review

This is adventure and climax and heartbreak all in one. Boland's trips across the globe tell stories of a changing life, changing points of view and a world that will never be quite united in its oneness. It definitely appealed to my wanderlust and Boland's writing is beautiful. I was familiar with her work at The Irish Times but was unaware of her lifelong travel obsession- this was a lovely dive into some candid conversations, big adventures and tiny moments of human loveliness.

I was a little wary that this book may be a little too much like 'Eat, Pray, Love' but I needn't have worried. Boland is a wonder at taking you as the reader to the places she is describing and weaving her own story in to the tales wonderfully.
You can tell she loves travel and meeting people which is so refreshing to read. When she has mishaps she takes them in her stride and chalks them up to experience rather than becoming insular. I am a photographer and not a writer in any sense of the word but she made me question this with her own arguments and skill in describing places.
The advice she gives in the last chapter is incredibly important too.

I connected quite a lot with the author as having travelled for years as well.
Some of the stories are more interesting than others, but what this book does is make you remember your own past adventures and it makes you wanna pack your bag and go away.

I can recommend this to anybody who loves travelling or feels the Fernweh.

I enjoy reading travel writing and liked that this was short and snappy. I would have wanted more links between the chapters and more of a general message to the book - it felt a little disjointed.

These essays, written over a lifetime of travel in the most beautiful, yearning, glittering language brought me far beyond my semi regular journeys to the south east of Ireland. I felt like I walked in step with Rosita Boland in Australia, England, Pakistan, Thailand, Japan, Antarctica, Peru, Iceland and Bali, through the good and the bad, and almost believed I was hearing these stories in person from a dear friend. Now, I feel real nostalgia for the book and for all these journeys I haven't made.

Just one chapter in, I knew that I shouldn't keep my proof copy to myself. A friend would soon embark on a year of travel, ultimately finishing up in Australia as Boland did for her first adventure, and I believed that she needed this book far more than my shelves did. I can see Elsewhere, though not yet published becoming one of those books, bought so many times to replace the copies press into the hands of all you meet. Like Virigina Woolf's belief that second hand books are 'wild books', I believe Elsewhere to be something that never gathers dust, that is thrown, a little worse for wear, into backpack after backpack, brought on journey after journey, with its pages marked by all those who have been touched by it.

Elsewhere is out on 30th May from Doubleday Ireland

Elsewhere is such an interesting book. I really enjoy travel memoirs and I think Boland does a fantastic job at recounting some of her travels. I also liked how she mentioned literature and books at various times, talking about how they influenced or inspired her to go somewhere or how she read a book in a particular place. Aspects of the book tend to dwell on Boland's feelings and memories about certain things that are unrelated to travel so the book is not entirely about travel but about her life and the moments of travel that stand out. I think you have to be a fan of Boland's tone and the way she writes in this book. It comes across as highly personal and an insight into someones experiences and thoughts, however, at times it felt a little pretentious and unrelatable. Overall I thought Elsewhere was interesting and an enjoyable read.

Rosita Boland documents trips to farflung places from different moments in her life in this travel memoir.

Unfortunately, not for me. There's a semblance of pretention that carries from the first page and there's not much else that really revives this book. I suspect my interest in travel memoirs is highlighted by those that concern food rather than ones about finding yourself.