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| Title: | Crossing Borders
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| Author: | Will Carr |
| ISBN: | 1934203068 : 9781934203064 |
| Illustrations: | 30 b/w & colour photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 372 |
| Weight: | .612 Kg. |
| Published: | GLB Publishers - February 2008 |
| List Price: | 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Literature of special Gay & Lesbian interest |
A 1950's personal travelogue and journey around the Mediterranean by a then young Jewish boy who came out as gay during the trip that engaged the heart and mind.
Prologue; Farewell to the Village; A Ship of Diverse Dreams; 'Gay' Paree; European Road Trip; A First in Italy; More Italy, More Men; Peaceful Man in a Military Land; The Mysterious Man called 'Jon'; Athens, the Acropolis, Delphi, and a Touch of Love; Bazaars & Riches; Edging the Middle East; Christmas Eve in the Holy Land; Eventually to Africa; From Cairo to the Back Roads of Africa; Out of Egypt; More of Africa; French Africa; The Last of the Drive; The Trip's End; The Final Chapter, So Far.
"Will Carr's automobile journey, 'Crossing Borders', around the Mediterranean Sea in 1953 bristles with relevance over fifty years later. Historically, we witness the same smouldering tensions over Palestine that divides Arabs and Jews today. On the personal level, it is a coming out saga for someone who not only discovers a world of ambiguous sexuality but also comes to realise that he, too, is not one to limit himself to any specific label. Nevertheless, the sexual adventures of the naive, twenty-seven year old Will with men of several different nationalities dramatise the conflicts, both inner and outer, of someone who is trying to discover who he is during the terrors of the McCarthy era." -- James Brogan, Professor of Gay Studies at San Francisco State University
