Best Women s Travel Writing 2009

by Lucy McCauley

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.

Best Women s Travel Writing 2009

Author: Lucy McCauley

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

ISBN: 1458726401

Page: 424

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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 2009, the fifth 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. 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, 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. In The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009:In Kenya, an American woman breaks the gender barrier on the soccer field. In the damp cellar of a Loire Valley chateaux, an American learns French and the art of """"creative"""" cooking. In Newfoundland, a kayaker gets up close and personal with icebergs and whales. An intrepid traveler canoes down the Amazon-at night. A 40-something motorbike rider braves a 1,550-mile race through China. In the Bahaman resort Atlantis, three sisters become seduced by the """"hyperreal""""-and remember the art of play. ...and much more.

The Best Women s Travel Writing 2009

by Lucy McCauley

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The Best Women s Travel Writing 2009

Author: Lucy McCauley

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

ISBN: 1932361995

Page: 352

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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, 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.

The Best Women s Travel Writing 2008

by Lucy McCauley

Presents exciting, uplifting and unforgettable adventures from women who have travelled to the ends of the earth to discover new people, places and facets of themselves.

The Best Women s Travel Writing 2008

Author: Lucy McCauley

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

ISBN: 9781932361551

Page: 312

View: 216

Presents exciting, uplifting and unforgettable adventures from women who have travelled to the ends of the earth to discover new people, places and facets of themselves.

The Best Travel Writing 2009

by James O'Reilly

A former high school English teacher, she writes, edits the work of others, and
substitute teaches at an all girls' high school. Previous essays have appeared in
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008 and in regional publications. carol beddo
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The Best Travel Writing 2009

Author: James O'Reilly

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

ISBN: 1932361626

Page: 351

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A sixth installment in the award-winning series follows themes ranging from high adventure and spiritual growth to romance and service to humanity, in a volume that takes readers to such locales as the coast of Panama, the wilds of Patagonia, and a colorful Ghana village. Original.

The Best Women s Travel Writing 2010

by Stephanie Elizondo Griest

“Design a Vagina” by Johanna Gohmann was first published on YourTango.com
in September 2009. Published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2009
by Johanna Gohmann. “Bosnian Blues” by Landon Spencer published with ...

The Best Women s Travel Writing 2010

Author: Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

ISBN: 193236174X

Page: 291

View: 120

Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized leader in women's travel literature. The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010 is the sixth book in an annual series 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 connecting these stories are a woman's perspective and fresh, compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn't. In The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010 readers will discover the hidden magic of Flamenco in Spain, walk the night and its terrors in Benin, have an excellent last day in Costa Rica, poke their way into the psyche of a security agent in Kabul, learn something new about death and Mexico in San Miguel de Allende, travel the darker side of the Hawaiian fantasy, draw a map of Argentinian tango, meet the best people in the world in Zimbabwe...and much more.

The Best American Travel Writing 2009

by Simon Winchester

He was a foreign correspondent for more than a decade before becoming acting
foreign editor on September 11 ... has selected him for four Harold Hirsch awards
for feature magazine writing , and he has received a Lowell Thomas Award ... Her
other honors include a lifetime achievement award from the University of
California , Santa Barbara , and the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's
Leadership .

The Best American Travel Writing 2009

Author: Simon Winchester

Publisher: Mariner Books

ISBN: 9780618858668

Page: 351

View: 573

Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the previous year, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.

100 Places in the USA Every Woman Should Go

by Sophia Dembling

100 Places in the USA Every Woman Should Go is a lively and highly subjective collection of places that will educate, illuminate, entertain, challenge, or otherwise appeal to women of all kinds.

100 Places in the USA Every Woman Should Go

Author: Sophia Dembling

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

ISBN: 1609520890

Page: 350

View: 660

100 Places in the USA Every Woman Should Go is a lively and highly subjective collection of places that will educate, illuminate, entertain, challenge, or otherwise appeal to women of all kinds. From historic (such as the Women's Rights National Historic Park) to kitschy (SPAM museum), these places and activities provide a wide-angle view of all that makes America, America.

A Motor Flight Through France

by Edith Wharton

She is also the series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing.

A Motor Flight Through France

Author: Edith Wharton

Publisher: Restless Books

ISBN: 1632060019

Page: 253

View: 376

"Those who have been charmed with Mrs. Wharton's novels will not be disappointed by her venture into the unfamiliar role of a travel writer." —New York Times, 1908 A trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. As the Whartons embark on three separate journeys through the country in 1906 and 1907, accompanied first by Edith’s brother, Harry Jones, and then by Henry James, Edith is enamored by the freedom that this new form of transport has given her. With a keen eye for architecture and art, and the engrossing style that would later earn her a Pulitzer Prize in fiction, Wharton writes about places that she previously “yearned for from the windows of the train." A Motor-Flight Through France captures the riches and charm of France during the Belle Époque in gorgeous, romantic prose. With the automobile in its infancy, Wharton experienced the countryside as few people ever had, liberated from the tedium and passivity of train travel. “The motor-car has restored the romance of travel,” she writes. Seeing through Wharton’s eyes, readers are sure to have their own appreciation for the road trip reawakened. Now published for the first time as an illustrated ebook with photographs reproduced directly from the 1908 first edition, with a new introduction by acclaimed travel writer Lavinia Spalding, the Restless Books edition of A Motor-Flight Through France kicks off an eye-opening new series of women writing about travel, with fresh introductions by some of our best contemporary travel writers. This overlooked classic will inspire current and future generations of readers and adventurers. Praise for A Motor-Flight Through France "Edith Wharton's graceful sentences create dramatic, populous tableaux and peel back layer after layer of artifice and pretense, of what we say and how we wish to appear, revealing the hidden kernel of what human beings are like, alone and together." —Francine Prose, New York Review of Books "Those who have been charmed with Mrs. Wharton's novels will not be disappointed by her venture into the unfamiliar role of a travel writer." —New York Times (1908) "Wharton's reflections will still charm those who've been and those who dream. A nice addition to American literature as well as travel collections." —Library Journal "A portrait of a long-forgotten France, a country that, when Wharton ranged over it in her 1904 Panhard-Levassor, was largely unchanged from medieval times." —New York Times Book Review Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Having grown up in an upper-class, tightly controlled society known as “Old New York” at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage, Wharton broke through these strictures to become one of that society’s fiercest critics as well as one of America’s greatest writers. The author of more than 40 books in 40 years, Wharton’s oeuvre includes classic works of American literature such as The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome, as well as authoritative works on architecture, gardens, interior design, and travel. Lavinia Spalding is a writer, editor, teacher, and lapsed luddite. She’s the author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler, named one of the best travel books of 2009 by the LA Times, and With a Measure of Grace: The Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant. She is also the series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing. Lavinia is a regular contributor to Yoga Journal, and her work has appeared in many print and online publications, including Sunset, Post Road, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco magazine, Tin House, Gadling, Overnight Buses, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and The Best Travel Writing Volume 9. Lavinia lives in San Francisco, where she’s a resident of the Writers’ Grotto and co-founder of the award-winning monthly travel reading series Weekday Wanderlust.

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The Best American Travel Writing 2012

by William T. Vollmann

Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the previous year, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.

The Best American Travel Writing 2012

Author: William T. Vollmann

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

ISBN: 0547808976

Page: 231

View: 114

Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the previous year, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.

Women s Travel Writings in Italy

by Betty Hagglund

Thus Miller's editor's preface also advertises meeting these - the recipient of her
letters , her ' esteemed relation will be in a position to compare Miller's account
with the best modern travels of French and English publication , as she had ...

Women s Travel Writings in Italy

Author: Betty Hagglund

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN:

Page: 1920

View: 656

Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate various themes in women's history.

Not So Innocent Abroad

by Ulrike Brisson

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 D'lynne Plummer , “ Rudolph for Newlyweds , ”
in The Best Women's Travel Writing , 83 . Trici Venola , “ A Fine Kettle of Fish , ” in
The Best Travel Writing 2006 , 252 . Melinda Misuraca , “ Blinded By Science ...

Not So Innocent Abroad

Author: Ulrike Brisson

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub

ISBN:

Page: 225

View: 412

With its specific focus on the connections between politics, travel, and travel writing, Not So Innocent Abroad offers a fresh approach to the study of travel literature. The authors make clear that travel and travel writing are never an â oeinnocentâ enterprise; rather, journeying always occurs within political systems, and travel writing either reflects the travelerâ (TM)s political stance, includes political aspects of foreign cultures, or directly or indirectly influences political decisions. In contrast to most scholarly publications that primarily focus on travel literature of former colonial nations, this volume includes a broader range of travelogues depicting cultures worldwide, spanning from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It thus offers with its comparative approach not only a geographically wide selection but also an historical dimension to the political aspects of travel writing. Although most travel literature generally has followed the Horatian principle to instruct and delight the armchair traveler, the authors of this volume clearly address the broader political implications of travel and travel writing within networks of â oenakedâ politics, such as international or interior conflicts, emigration laws, or national propaganda. They also reveal how insidiously political messages are dissimulated through travel writing.

The Doctor and the Stork

by K.K. Goldberg

With the author’s eccentric family and wry humor in the mix, this is a highly relatable story that’s hard to put down. “Not just a smart and funny book about twins—a smart and funny book,” wrote best-selling author Pamela ...

The Doctor and the Stork

Author: K.K. Goldberg

Publisher: She Writes Press

ISBN: 1631528319

Page: 280

View: 940

More than 150,000 twin births occur in the United States every year, and over five million IVF babies have been born worldwide since the technology’s inception. In The Doctor and the Stork, K.K. Goldberg offers a firsthand, week-by-week reflection upon the unique fears and joys surrounding a high-tech conception and high-risk multiple pregnancy. With the author’s eccentric family and wry humor in the mix, this is a highly relatable story that’s hard to put down. “Not just a smart and funny book about twins—a smart and funny book,” wrote best-selling author Pamela Druckerman, on reading The Doctor and The Stork.

In Morocco

by Edith Wharton

We passed through a gate and were confronted by other ramparts.

In Morocco

Author: Edith Wharton

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing

ISBN: 9781419125782

Page: 132

View: 228

We passed through a gate and were confronted by other ramparts. Then we entered an outskirt of dusty red lanes bordered by clay hovels with draped figures slinking by like ghosts. After that more walls, more gates, more endlessly winding lanes, more gates again, more turns, a dusty open space with donkeys and camels and negroes; a final wall with a great door under a lofty arch--and suddenly we were in the palace of the Bahia, among flowers and shadows and falling water.