Notes from My Travels
{{Short description|2003 book by Angelina Jolie}}
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| author = Angelina Jolie
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Memoir
| publisher = Pocket Books
| release_date = October 2003
| media_type = Print (trade paperback)
| pages = 213
| isbn = 0-7434-7023-0
| dewey= 362.87 22
| congress= HV640 .J65 2003
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Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador is a collection of journal excerpts kept by actress Angelina Jolie written from February 2001 through June 2002 detailing her experiences travelling to troubled Third World regions in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The book was published in 2003, concurrent with the release of Beyond Borders, a film in which she plays a character who eventually works for UNHCR. It was also during the timeframe of writing these journals that Jolie adopted her Cambodian-born son, Maddox.{{cite news |work=CNN |title=Angelina Jolie Advocates Aid for Refugees |date=January 25, 2007 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/05/pysk.jolie/index.html |archive-date=February 8, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208040600/https://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/05/pysk.jolie/index.html}}
Notes from My Travels details Jolie's visits to Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan, Cambodia, and Ecuador.
Jolie donated her proceeds from the book to the UNHCR.{{cite magazine |title=Angelina Jolie: Girl, Transformed |date=November 2003 |page=154 |volume=201 |number=5 |magazine=Redbook |first=David |last=Keeps |id={{ProQuest|1896247840}} |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1896247840/BEAE65A533D447E2PQ/}}
In 2006, Jolie put her handwritten notebooks up for auction with the proceeds benefiting refugees.{{cite news |title=Angelina Jolie auctioning her journal to raise money for refugees in Chile |date=June 22, 2006 |work=National Post |page=A16 |id={{ProQuest|330412637}} |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/330412637/48C7C86CDE04828PQ/}} Bidding started at $150,{{cite news |url=https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2006-06/21/content_622646.htm |work=China Daily |title=Angelina Jolie auctions journal for refugees |date=June 21, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210190158/https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2006-06/21/content_622646.htm |archive-date=February 10, 2023}} and the journals were sold for $5,460.{{cite news |title=In Brief |date=June 28, 2006 |work=La Opinión |page=6B |id={{ProQuest|368522597}} |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/368522597/48C7C86CDE04828PQ/}}
Release
In July 2020, Notes from My Travels was translated into Vietnamese by Hoang Anh Kapi.{{cite news |title=Angelina Jolie's Book Published in Vietnamese |date=July 3, 2020 |work=Việt Nam News |id={{ProQuest|2419894540}} |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2419894540/ }}{{cite news |title=Angelina Jolie’s book published in Vietnamese |work=Vietnam Global |date=March 7, 2020 |url=https://vietnamnet.vn/en/angelina-jolies-book-published-in-vietnamese-653872.html |archive-date=February 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210184758/https://vietnamnet.vn/en/angelina-jolies-book-published-in-vietnamese-653872.html}}
Reception
=Critical response=
Upon its release Notes from My Travels, was well received with newspapers like The Arab American News saying the book, "...offers insight into refugee life."{{cite news |title=Angelina Jolie Releases Journal About Refugee Life |date=April 23, 2004 |page=10 |work=The Arab American News |id={{ProQuest|362812100}} |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/362812100/48C7C86CDE04828PQ/}}
In 2016, the book was included in a list by UWIRE of empowering books for Women's History Month. The journalist behind the list Sarah Nichols called the book, "deeply intelligent and thoughtful."{{cite news |title=Empowering books to commemorate Women's History Month |date=March 26, 2016 |first=Sarah |last=Nichols |work=University Wire |id={{ProQuest|1775856104}} |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1775856104/1AAF3C603AE9439EPQ/}}
Hoang Anh Kapi who adapted the book for Vietnamese in 2020 called the book, "...a must-read book to understand more about the world we are living in."
Jane Goodall, Ph.D., CBE Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace said, "Angelina is living proof of the power we all have—every one of us—to make a difference. I was deeply moved by her descriptions of individual refugees struggling to live with dignity and hope, and found her personal commitment to be an inspiration. Angelina's journals document her awakening as a humanitarian activist and I hope they will move readers to act. I look forward to my continued work with Angelina on behalf of the United Nations."
On December 25, 2018, Syeda Adeela Zainab from the Voice of Journalists said "The book is worth reading for everybody especially for those who want to volunteer their selves for the well being of humanity."{{cite news |first=Syeda Adeela |last=Zainab |date=December 25, 2018 |title=“Notes from my Travels” by Angelina Jolie Review |work=Voice of Journalists |url=https://www.voj.news/notes-from-my-travels-by-angelina-jolie/ |archive-date=February 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210185605/https://www.voj.news/notes-from-my-travels-by-angelina-jolie/}}
=Public opinion=
When interviewed by the Daily Mirror in October 2003, Angelina's father Jon Voight said the book is, "...very well written and moving to read."{{cite news |title=Film Chat: Voight in a Void; How Jon Voight Hopes to Make Up With Angelina Jolie |date=October 24, 2003 |work=Daily Mirror |id={{ProQuest|339147940}} |first=David |last=Edwards |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/339147940/BEAE65A533D447E2PQ/}}
References
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External links
- Published in [http://www.simonsays.com/content/content.cfm?sid=33&pid=422892&app=comments English], [http://www.bombus-verlag.de/stage/content.php?id=65 German], [https://web.archive.org/web/20050327135329/http://www.shc.co.jp/book/4-916199-56-1.htm Japanese], [http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/2312128 Russian]
- [http://www.cambodianvision.com/angelina.html Cambodian Vision in Development]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703165608/http://www.witness.org/option,com_rightsalert/Itemid,178/task,view/alert_id,16/ Witness to Truth]
- [http://www.elros.altervista.org/ Angelina Jolie's Refugee Journals]
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Category:2003 non-fiction books
Category:Travel autobiographies
Category:American travel books