The best women's travel writing [electronic resource] : 2009 : true stories from around the world / edited by Lucy McCauley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCauley, Lucy.

Series:

Best Women's Travel Writing

Best women's travel writing, 1553-054X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel writing.

Women travelers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Palo Alto [Calif.] : Travelers' Tales, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This best-selling, award-winning series presents the finest accounts of women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples ? and themselves. The common threads connecting the stories are a woman's perspective and lively storytelling to make the reader laugh, cry, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn't. From breaking the gender barrier on a soccer field in Kenya to learning the art of French cooking in a damp cellar in the Loire Valley to hitchhiking through Mexico in the 1960s, the points of view and perspectives are global and the themes eclectic, includ

Contents:

Dedication; Contents; Editor's Preface; Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31; 32; 33; 34; 35; Acknowledgments; About the Editor

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-67962-7

9786612679629

1-932361-99-5

OCLC:

648711519