A Knitter Sees the World. Over the last ddecade, Clara Parkes has clocked so many travel miles that she's esentially taken off from or landed in a new city every two weeks. In this book she takes the reader along on 17 of her most memorable voyages, big and small, from the fjords of Iceland to a cozy yarn shop in Paris's 13th arrondissement, from a noisy spinning mill in Taos to a fledgling festival in Edinburgh.