The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008: True Stories From Around The World
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Tags: Contemporary, Travel, Women
ISBN-13:9781932361551
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Since the publication of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been publishing award-winning books by and for women. We continue this tradition with The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2008, the fourth collection in our annual series guaranteed to inspire women to take their first trip—or to continue exploring the world with wit, soul, and verve, as so many adventurous women do each and every day. These 35 stories cover the globe, from kayaking a wild river in Patagonia, learning to drive a tuk-tuk in Thailand to finding Eros in Venice. The perspectives are global and themes encompass spiritual growth, high adventure, romance, and encounters with exotic cuisine. In The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2008 readers will:
Get carried away in Paris with Christine Sarkis
Experience real life comic opera with Natalie Galli in Sicily
Obtain a blessing from the River Ganges in India with Carol J. Arnold
Fight a bull from horseback with Diana Cohen in Spain
Explore lava flows with Martha McPhee in Hawaii
Get the best revenge on an errant boyfriend with Laura Resau in Mexico
Probe the meaning of tradition in Papua New Guinea with Abbie Kozolchyk
Meditate in a cave with a view with Kate Wheeler in Ladakh
Apprentice with the silver smiths of Niger with Alexis Wolff
Get up the gumption to ski down the mountain with Anne Lamott in the USA...and much more.
Extended Copyright Information
Copyright 2008 by Solas House, Inc. All rights reserved.
Introduction copyright 2008 by Linda Ellerbee.
Previously published by Travelers' Tales.
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