The Guttered Dog, a Compilation

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Summary: Exceptional Travel Anthology
Review: Carol Miller fulfills every reader's fantasy of traveling the world over. Her wonderful research, the autobiographical reminiscenes, the tales of love and dismay, are a delight to read, while they take us to the heart of Mexico and the Mexicans, and beyond: to Peru, Turkey, Syria, Greece and the Greek Islands, the heart of Africa and Southeast Asia, even the stormy California coast. Every page is surprising and unexpected. I loved this book!

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Summary: A Treasure
Review: The author's passion for travel is at the heart of 'The Guttered Dog', which is a series of nineteen chapters that unveil memorable people, places and events in her life. The tantalizing title refers to the author's lifelong and consuming love for animals and a horse riding accident that threatened to leave her paralyzed for life. She has traveled the world and delves into foreign cultures with enthusiasm and insight. Carol Miller is a multi-talented woman--a sculptress, a writer, a correspondent and an expert on the culture of the Maya. From her home in Mexico, she takes the reader to continents and cities such as Asia, South America, New York and introduces enduring friends along the way. Each chapter includes enough history to provide a framework for the pictures she paints with words. Her descriptive yet concise writing style takes the reader on her travels, making pilgrimages and meeting people. Most of the book centers on the last half of the twentieth century, which gives the reader an opportunity to read about places such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok as they were then, rather than the westernized metropolises they have become recently. The author embraces life fully and as she states in the epilogue, she wrote the book to share what she has learned and felt. Anyone who reads this entertaining and poignantly written book will be a richer person for it.

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Summary: Terrific Book
Review: The range of Miller's interests, and her writing skill, are mesmerizing. She also has a knack for finding the outrageous in the ordinary and the soothing in the outrageous. A terrific book.