The best women's travel writing [electronic resource] . Volume 8 : true stories from around the world / edited by Lavinia Spalding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavinia, Spalding.

Contributor:

Spalding, Lavinia.

Series:

Best Women's Travel Writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings.

Voyages and travels.

Women travelers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Palo Alto, [Calif.] : Travelers' Tales, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized leader in women's travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women's travel writing of the year. This title is the eighth in an annual series-The Best Women's Travel Writing-that presents stimulating, inspiring, and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads con

Contents:

[ Table of Contents ]; Introduction; Lost and Liberated | Kimberley Lovato | FRANCE; The Runaway | Ann Hood | TIBET; Bridge on the Border | Molly Beer | EL SALVADOR/GUATEMALA; Twenty Years and Counting | Marcia DeSanctis | FRANCE; Learning to Pray | Angie Chuang | AFGHANISTAN; Beneath the Surface | Lucy McCauley | USA; Storming the Castles | Susan Orlean | FRANCE; Riverdance | Laurie Weed | LAOS; What We Do After Gunfire | Jocelyn Edelstein | BRAZIL; Sidecar Sally | Carrie Visintainer | MEXICO; Taking the Oars | Bridget Crocker | ZAMBIA; Root- Bound | Marcy Gordon | ITALY

Of Monarchs and Men in Michoacán | Meera Subramanian | MEXICOA Thousand Simple Steps | Amber Kelly- Anderson | CHINA; The Kiwi Hunt | Jennifer Rose Smith | NEW ZEALAND; The Threadbare Rope | Carol Reichert | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; Climbing Vaea | Catherine Watson | SAMOA; The International Expiration Date | Sarah Katin | OMAN/ABU DHABI; Our Own Apocalypse Now | Haley Sweetland Edwards | VIETNAM; I Think I Must Be Beautiful | Blair Braverman | NAMIBIA; Passion and Pizza | Layne Mosler | ARGENTINA; Bones Surfacing in the Dirt | Lauren Quinn | CAMBODIA

Mare's Milk, Mountain Bikes, Meteors & Mammaries | Kirsten Koza | KYRGYZSTANLetting Go on the Ganges | Kristen Zibell | INDIA; Birthright | Emily Matchar | ISRAEL; Spiral- Bound | Kate McCahill | INDIA; Meat and Greet | Abbie Kozolchyk | VIETNAM; Death and Love in Kenya | Anena Hansen | KENYA; Dance of the Spider Women | Laura Fraser | ITALY; On the Macal | Mary Jo McConahay | BELIZE; Holiday Camp | Martha Ezell | ENGLAND; Tongues and Arrows | Jessica Wilson | FRANCE/SPAIN; Acknowledgments; About the Editor

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-60952-063-7

OCLC:

815384451