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A
frank travelogue that reflects upon Australia's natural beauty and majestic history as well as the author's personal quest,
Inside Out Down Under blends wonder, exploration, spirituality, and joy into a thoroughly satisfying travelogue
experience.
Midwest
Book Review
MORE THAN A TRAVEL STORY
Inside Out Down Under, Diana Somerville's beautifully written and engaging
memoir of adventure, spiritual quest and personal growth, is not just the simple exposition of another land, but the very
personal journey of a woman's spirituality. With the rigorous diligence of a scientist, she searches for the profound meanings
and forces that have connected Koori people to the natural world, and to the power of a life-force past and present.
Sheldon W. Taproot
Washington State
Inside Out Down Under is so full of love and wisdom and adventure, it made
cry.
Somerville offers us a gorgeous
songline that runs through her circle of women into the circle of Aboriginal Australia and back again in dreamtime.
Anyone who reads this will be truly
transformed.
Jennifer Heath
Author of On The Edge of Dream
The Women of Celtic Myth and Legend
The Echoing Green
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I
love Somerville's prose! ...her way of phrasing things, of connecting unfamiliar words in a strange new land with something
-- whether connected or not -- familiar.
I
loved that she doesn't pretend to understand all she saw and felt, that she doesn't profess to have everything all figured
out & that not all healing practices (i.e. the sweat lodge) send her into raptures.
L. Hoffman, Travel Writer
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
I loved your journey to the
sweat lodge the most, it showed me something that's going on in Australia that I had no idea about.
I loved your response to the Australian landscape
. . . and in fact your response to the whole town and its inhabitants.
I loved your honesty and the open hearted way you approached people and the project. Congratulations
on an enjoyable read and an interesting outsiders perspective on our culture and place.
Claudia Taranto
ABC News
Australian
Broadcasting Corporation
From a literary perspective,
Inside Out/Down Under is a joy to read. Diana is a writer by trade and her travelogue of the beauty, the challenges
and the damage done to landscapes, outer and inner, geographical and spiritual, are carefully and creatively crafted for maximum
awareness as well as reading pleasure.
George F. Simons
Diversophy.com
Mandelieu Napoule
Cote d'Azur, France
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