This book tells the story of Alice Rumphius, who in the late 1800s longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful. After traveling the world (including Egypt, Indonesia, and Tunisia), an injury causes her to return to America, to a house by the Atlantic Ocean in Maine. However as she grows older, she wonders what exactly she can do that will make the world more beautiful. What she decides upon is wandering […]