Rochelle Almeida is professor of global cultures in liberal studies at New York University.

• AcknowledgmentsChap 1—Blundering in BarcelonaChap 2—Getting There…and Over ThereChap 3—Stalking Royalty in the HighlandsChap 4—A Solitary SeptemberChap 5—AfflictedChap 6—An Aegean OdysseyChap 7—Acquiring EnglishnessChap 8—Half A Month of Mood SwingsChap 9—Troubles in Northern IrelandChap 10—Transnational ChristmasChap 11—Freezing in FebruaryChap 12— Homeless (Or Very Nearly)Chap 13—Operation Husband HuntChap 14—Tales of Several Cities Chap 15—Eastertide Adventures in Belgium and with the Bard Chap 16—Grand Reunions on Both Sides of the ChannelChap 17—With Country Squires in Farringdon and SuffolkChap 18—In Oxford: It’s Deja-Vu All Over AgainChap 19—Last HurrahsChap 20—Finally In FranceEpilogueAbout the Author

Rochelle Almeida's The Year The World Was Mine: An Anglophile Hits A Half-Century, brings together the charming but often endearingly tragic accounts of a traveling academic, as she contemplates the nature of her milestone, the reality offered by her encounters and the memorable travails of her circumstances. Witty to the bone, deadpan and largely irreverent, her memoirs make a terrific read.