Synopses & Reviews
In
The Best Womens Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World, thirty celebrated and emerging writers invite you to ride shotgun as they travel the globe to discover new places, people, and facets of themselves. The essays are as diverse as the destinations, the common thread being fresh, compelling storytelling that will make you laugh, weep, wish you were there, or thank your lucky stars you werent.
The Best Womens Travel Writing speaks to the reasons why we traveland how travel changes our lives.
In The Best Womens Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World, youll:
Study the ancient art of belly dancing in Egypt
Go day-drinking with a sea captain in Croatia
Scuba dive through an underground cave in Mexico
Run from massive exploding balloons in Burma
Embed with the military in Afghanistan
Experience a different kind of time in Argentina
Go dogsledding in Finland
Confront heartache, pain, and a deadly creature in Indonesia
Negotiate with smugglers in Mongolia
Marry a stranger at Burning Man
... and much, much more.
Review
Praise for the
Best Women's Travel Writing series:
"This book will grace my bedside for years to come. " Simon Winchester
"Delightful (and sometimes dreadful) wayfaring adventures from all corners of the globe." The Washington Post
"There is real drama and comedy in these pages." San Francisco Chronicle
"An inspiration and a fine read for anyone who is missing the open road." Transitions Abroad
"Even as a veteran traveler, I found new revelations here." Herbert Gold
Synopsis
Since publishing the original edition of
A Womans World in 1995, Travelers Tales has been the recognized national leader in womens 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 womens travel writing of the year. This title is the tenth in that series —
The Best Womens Travel Writing — presenting 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 connecting these stories are a female perspective and fresh, compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasnt. The points of view and perspectives are global, and the themes are as eclectic as in all of our books, including stories that encompass spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, solo journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and encounters with exotic cuisine.
About the Author
Lavinia Spalding has edited three previous volumes of
The Best Womens Travel Writing. She is also the author of
Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler and
With a Measure of Grace, the Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant, and she introduced the reissued e-book edition of Edith Whartons classic travelogue,
A Motor-Flight Through France. Her writing appears in numerous print and online publications, including
Sunset, Yoga Journal, San Francisco magazine,
The San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, and
The Best Travel Writing. She lives in San Francisco, where she is a resident of the Writers' Grotto and co-founder of Weekday Wanderlust, a monthly travel reading series.