The author Thomas Moore is the son of FonMoore, a former United Airlines pilot who inWWII was a pilot of a C47 Skytrain fl ying thehump from India to China, in the China BurmaIndia theatre.
At eighteen, Paula is already a seasoned traveler, having begun life in England, crisscrossed the US as a young child, and survived a year in a London boarding school, immersed in her mother's heritage.