After an adventure-seeking seventeen-year-old from Calgary spent a year living in Thailand, her record of this extraordinary experience won the 1993 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction. Here for the first time, Karen Connelly shares her personal photos of the Thai People and landscapes she came to call her own. New maps bring readers closer to her journey, and Connelly's afterword reflects on an adventure that started a lifetime of travelling and writing, inspiring the world with her stories.