LINK TO RADIO NATIONAL INTERVIEW FOR TRAVELS WITH MY HAT





The author in Kenya, 1976

Here is the link to Christine Osborne's appearance on the leading Radio National program Life Matters:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/christine-osborne3a-travels-with-my-hat/5408402

The interview is approximately 20 minutes long and was broadcast on Anzac Day in a program celebrating the achievements of Australians outside their nation's borders.

Travels with My Hat is available through Amazon, iBooks, Google Books and other outlets, including the primary A Sense of Place Publishing website:

http://www.asenseofplacepublishing.com/

The Australian Broadcasting Commission summed up Osborne thus:

"In 1964 Christine Osborne, photo journalist and travel writer, exchanged her nurses uniform for a back pack and set out to see the world on a trip that led her through Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Christine spent a lifetime reporting on the region. Her memoir is Travels with my Hat.

"Christine is also the founder of the World Religions Photo Library."

Here is a Top 10 Amazon's rave review:
Review
5.0 out of 5 stars Travels With My Hat is an OUTSTANDING book, I simply could not put it down! February 8, 2014
By Daisy S HALL OF FAME TOP 10 REVIEWER VINE VOICE
Format: Kindle Edition

For me, I love history and also geography etc. When I read this outstanding book, I found so much more. In fact, from the very beginning of this book, that Christine and I were sharing journeys together. Yes, I know that I could go on and on about how much I loved reading this book...Instead I will tell you why I found this book so special:

+ Table of Contents - Love that I can press just the chapter I want to read and go right to it from there.

+ Chapter 8 - Letters to her MUM (mother). This I loved to read as it her very personal accounts of her trips.

+ Love the pictures (all with labels of date and location etc under the picture) and also the maps in this book and all were clear and easy to see even on my Kindle7 screen.

+ Chapter 3 - My favorite chapter of all! This has historical pictures and maps as well as a picture of her travels while she was on the Royal Press Corps.

If you love to read about travel and especially history, look no more, I believe that you will love this book!

Highly recommend this book!

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