There She Goes: Travel Stories Told By the Women Who Wrote Them: Today we travel with Maxine Rose Schur to Iran, where she finds unexpected warmth, comfort – and trust – through a silent twilight ritual with a stranger…
Maxine appeared on the There She Goes Podcast, episode “S1E10: Maxine Rose Schur, The Ritual,” from her memoir Places in Time, which won the North American Travel Journalists Association 2006 Best Travel Book of the Year award, where she recounts a journey to Iran, describing a “silent twilight ritual” with a stranger that provided unexpected comfort and warmth.
Maxine Rose Schur has a passion for travel and for art and has combined these two loves in many of her award-winning travel essays. Maxine's essays have appeared in numerous publications including, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, Escape, Américas, Caribbean Travel & Life, Northwest Airlines World Traveler, Insight Guide to Hispaniola, LION Magazine, Traveller (U.K.) National Geographic Explorer and Salon.com. Her essays have been anthologized in several Traveler’s Tales series, Salon.Com Wanderlust: Real-life Tales of Adventure and Romance and Paris in Mind, both published by Random House and The Kindness of Strangers by Lonely Planet/Pantheon Books.
In 1995 and again in 1999, Maxine won the Lowell Thomas Award given by the Society of American Travel Writers for excellence in adventure travel journalism. Maxine Rose Schur is also the author of critically-acclaimed, award-winning books for young people including picture books and historical novels. Her non-fiction for adults includes the art-filled gift journals: The Reading Woman and Enchanted Islands: Voices and Visions from the Caribbean, Solo Passages and the travel narrative, Places in Time, named 2007 Best Travel Book by the North American Travel Journalists Association and named Best Travel Narrative of 2007 (Gold) from the Society of American Travel Writers.
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