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Chasing Ruth
A Century Later a Family Discovers Itself
What happens to a family of four when it travels over 18,000 miles in five weeks? In this nonfiction account the authorsfamily follows in the century-old footsteps of writer Holly J. Pierces grandmother Ruth Crapo taken during her six-monthGrand Tour of Europe and beyond.
While the Grand Tour was designed to educate and refine a 27-year-old young lady, this contemporary journey initiallyplanned to be both one of connection with the past and a chance to strengthen family bonds turns into a hectic, often grimly humorous forced march.
Based on the words of Grandmother Ruths diary, the trek taken a century later comes to life through the candid wordshastily scratched into the author and her daughters diaries as the family scrambled to make connections with trains, ferries,metros and planes.
