The Long Way Home -- Overland from Mongolia to Madrid

Susan Carmichael worked as a media advisor for an international project in Mongolia, training reporters and editors, and working with nomadic herders on the harsh Mongolian steppe. During her time in Mongolia, she was fed massive amounts of vodka and boiled mutton dumplings, enjoyed fermented mare's milk, attended a winter fest with Tsaatan reindeer herders, interviewed a shaman, traveled all over the Mongolian steppe in -45 F., and came to fiercely love Mongolia and her people. "This is my favorite book of the season, and I'm recommending it to all my friends. It's such a pleasure to find an author who keeps me entertained -- page after page." Richard O'Hara, author of "The Narrow Roads." This is the story of her return home, via the Trans-Siberian train, through Siberia, Russia, Lithuania, Ireland, and Finisterre, a small fishing village at the end of the Camino de Santiago, which had suffered a massive oil spill in the months before her arrival there as a volunteer. The author has lived and traveled in Europe, Morocco, Tunisia, Mongolia, Thailand, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Ireland. She loves life on the road, the odd surprises and tough challenges, and the pleasure of meeting people and hearing their stories. This is her first travel memoir.