Wilder shores Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Arrivals
	The Flying Village	3
	On the Ship	7
	Aeroplane Jelly	10
	The New World	17
	A Sort of Gift	22
	Camping Up	25
	The Migrant's Inferno	29
	On Being a Home-grown Migrant	32
	Navaranjini Takes Note of Signs and Visions	36
	Away
	Aunt Dot's Camel	45
	Escape	51
	Vietnam	56
	Rescued: and Again Drifting	60
	A Sense of Place	65
	Sweet-and-Sour	68
	Changes and the Things that Don't Change: India 1977 and 1990	74
	England Again	80
	Observing the Conventions	83
	Barcelona	87
	Granen	91
	Chaos and Confusion	95
	The Only Black Woman at Ealing Station	99
	The Anchorage Was Not Blue	102
	out of order	105
	Hard Sausage	110
	Smuggling	114
	Reckless, Cynical and Frivolous	119
	Once I Rode an Elephant	123
	To Crete	125
	By Pack-Mule and Litter	130
	Pacific Sidetracks	135
	India's Alleyways	138
	The Space Between	142
	Some Girls	148
	Journeys Within
	The Getting Away	155
	The Ascent of the Blue Mountains	159
	Reflections on a Black Childhood	162
	Inland	164
	Why I Wrote a Short Story Called 'Diesel Epiphany'	168
	A World of Water	172
	Hit the Road	178
	To School	181
	Uluru	184
	Because of the Rusilla	189
	The Desert	197
	A Woman in Man's Clothes	203
	Keeping Cool	211
	Every Rockhole a Story	213
	Regards to the Czar	217
	Notes on the Authors	223