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| Travelers' Tales books for and about women celebrate
women's determination, daring, and adventurous spirit.
Whether you're making travel plans, hope to make travel
plans, or are an armchair traveller, you can share in
the words of women writers of all ages. These books will
motivate, inspire, empower and encourage you in your
journeys and your dreams. |
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| ANTHOLOGIES |
 Sand
In My Bra & Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write
from the Road
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 Whose
Panties Are These? More Misadventures from Funny Women
on the Road |
 The
Thong Also Rises: Further Misadventures from Funny Women
on the Road |
| Editor: Jennifer Leo |
Editor: Jennifer Leo |
Editor: Jennifer Leo |
| Travel isn't always what we dream it
will be, but oh…the stories we can tell later!
For the women in this book, packing a sense of humor
was essential to the success of their trips. From Australia
to Zambia, Thailand to Kuwait, the true stories in Sand
in My Bra will not only have you shaking your
head in disbelief, they’ll induce smiles, groans,
cackles, and guffaws. |
The best travel stories often hatch when
things go completely wrong, and this book is filled with
sidesplitting stories of female misadventure around the
world. Showcasing every known type of travel blunder,
botch, stumble, and bumble, these rollicking stories
come from all reaches of the globe and are told from
a quintessentially female point of view. |
Travel girls gone wild! It's not about
their underwear, it's about gut-busting adventures. These
funny women on the road just can't stop laughing about
the global messes they get themselves into. Jen Leo brings
you dozens of crazy Ms.-Adventures from Egypt to North
Dakota and back home again.Howl, cry, guffaw, and commiserate
with these adventuresses. |
$14.95 (softcover)
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$14.95 (softcover)
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$14.95 (softcover)
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 Her
Fork in the Road: Women Celebrate Food and Travel |
 The
World is a Kitchen: True Stories of Cooking Your Way
Through Culture |
| Editor: Lisa Bach |
Editors: Michele Anna Jordan
and Susan Brady |
| Women's relationship with
food is as nuanced as our most intriguing journeys: passionate
and obsessive; embracing and comforting; complex and
frustrating; even surprising. This savory sampling of
stories journeys across borders and cultures to the heart
of this age-old relationship - from familiar kitchens
to the globe's far reaches. |
Readers are inspired to experience
food in a new way, to explore new lands, new cultures,
and new cuisines. Chefs, travel writers, and dedicated
foodies share their unique experiences, transporting
readers into kitchens in Morocco, Italy, Belize, Cypress,
Kenya, Vietnam, and elsewhere, revealing the diverse
traditions of other countries through their cuisine.
Explore the gastronomic side of travel through these
stories, trying the hard-won and treasured recipes as
you go along, and then get ready to plan your own adventure. |
$16.95 (softcover)
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$16.95 (softcover)
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 A
Woman's Asia |
 A
Woman's Europe |
| Editor: Marybeth Bond |
Editor: Marybeth Bond |
| In this inspiring collection,
readers explore the legend of Kuan Yin, the Chinese goddess
of compassion; encounter the plight of poor women in
rural India; discover their own cultural space through
bathing with elephants in India; bridge the chasm dividing
West and East through teaching English in Laos; confront
their moral choices over dinner in Bangkok; dance with
the ghost of Genghis Khan in Mongolia; come of age in
Bali; and much more. |
A Woman's Europe is
a collection of inspiring and entertaining true stories
by women about their travels throughout the Continent.
These stories highlight women discovering peculiarly
European pleasures - the romantic realities of a gondolier's
life on a ride through the Venice canals; meeting a comforting
Swiss matron when a village visit becomes lonely and
confusing; the meaning behind rituals like picking olives
or learning flamenco. |
$17.95 (softcover)
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$17.95 (softcover)
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 Women
in the Wild: True Stories of Adventure and Connection |
 A
Woman's Path: Women's Best Spiritual Travel Writing |
| Editor: Lucy McCauley |
Editors: Lucy McCauley, Amy G. Carlson,
and Jennifer Leo |
| Building on the success of A Woman's
World, Women in the Wild shares
the adventures of renowned women as they foray into
the wilderness -- kayaking, flying, swimming, hiking,
camping, and climbing their way around the globe. Notable
authors include: Alice Walker, Jane Goodall, Robyn Davidson,
Gretel Ehrlich, and Annie Dillard. |
Women journey on a variety of paths to
understand both the geographical and the spiritual. This
remarkable ensemble of women write about their spiritual
awakenings, sharing the experiences that led to their
spiritual growth and transformation. |
$17.95 (softcover)
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$16.95 (softcover)
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| FOOTSTEPS:
THE SOUL OF TRAVEL |
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 Kite
Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey |
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Author: Laurie Gough |
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This is a passionate journey of love,
discovery, and serendipity that radiates from a remote
beach in Fiji to the far reaches of the globe. Author
Laurie Gough boldly embraces the pilgrim in us with wisdom
beyond her years. Her story is heartwarming, funny, and
wise...a profound testament to the lessons of the road. |
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$14.95 (softcover)
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