When Alana and Roland, a spirited Canadian couple with an insatiable desire to live life to the fullest, embark on an epic yearlong travel adventure around the world with their newborn son and ten-year-old daughter, they think they’re prepared for whatever might come their way.
They soon discover that this is not entirely true.
This charming family love story, sure to inspire wanderlust, is peppered with funny parenting mishaps, thrilling adventures, breathtaking sceneries, unforgettable monuments, and culinary bliss. However, as you are taken through the temples of Southeast Asia, the pyramids of Egypt, the rolling hills of Tuscany, and the African plains, you will also be exposed to the world as experienced by a biracial, blended family. Around the World in Black & White is a tale of self-discovery, racial awakening, resilience, and deeper understanding. This bold, witty, and heartfelt memoir will have you rethinking how you travel, how you see the world, and how the world sees you.
That is why I already have to recommend this incredible book! Around the World in Black and White has fast become a favorite travel memoir of mine thanks to the author’s story, inspiration, and heart laced throughout the book that kept me hooked and entertained. If you are a reader, however, who needs more convincing, then continue to read to learn about Around the World in Black and White!
Around the World in Black and White is written by Alana Best, and wow what a stellar story she has written! In Around the World in Black and White, Alana will take her readers on a year-long journey across the world with her husband Roland, and their newborn son and ten-year-old daughter. Canadians Alana and Roland, with their desire to live life to the fullest, decided to take their family on the road which saw them explore Asia, Europe, and Africa, and along the way they experienced many incredible feats but also mishaps. In Around the World in Black and White, Alana is open and honest with readers on all they experienced, the highs and the lows, and the challenges that come with traveling with young children. It makes for not only a beautiful story but an inspiring one that will surely motivate you to travel the world, no matter how old your children are and accomplish all you wish and this book lovers is the short premise of the incredible Around the World in Black and White!
Alana Best is an exceptional author and an incredible person for writing her book and sharing her story with us readers. Stories are meant to be shared, and Alana’s story was, I truly believe that it will help many readers realize the importance of family and traveling, and making memories together. That is why I adore Alana for writing her book as it will help others as she is brazen and honest with her literature and speaks to her readers as if they know her, it made for a personal reading experience like no other and I am so happy to have read Around the World in Black and White!
Not only is Alana Best incredible for writing her book and sharing her story, but she also is for the beautiful literature laced throughout her travel memoir. Travel memoirs, in my opinion, only work if the author in question is descriptive, honest, and can transport the reader effortlessly from place to place, and Alana Best most certainly accomplished this with Around the World in Black and White. Alana Best wrote her story perfectly, describing all the places she visited, so the reader felt as if they were there right beside her and her family on their travels, and it made for an incredible reading experience.
Overall, Around the World in Black and White is an incredible, captivating, and poignant travel memoir with meaningful messages and lessons laced throughout, and that is why I have to award Around the World in Black and White five stars! So be sure to have a read of the preview below book lovers, you won’t regret it!
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