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Ellen Barone
Ellen Barone is an American writer and independent creator who left a secure academic career in 1998 to become a travel writer and photographer. She specializing in travel and tourism for 15 years and spent nearly a decade as a global nomad. She is the author of the 2023 memoir I Could Live Here, about long-stay global travel and redefining home, and co-founded the travel blog YourLifeIsATrip.com.
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Ryan Benz
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Melissa L. Cook
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Michael Neiman
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Glennon Doyle’s Untamed also centers on a midlife decision to abandon inherited scripts, offering an urgent, confessional memoir with a sharp emotional charge.
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Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals also chronicles upending a settled life to find and rebuild belonging in an unexpected new home abroad.
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Richard Louis Proenneke
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