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An essential resource for any female traveler, Gutsy Women addresses the needs of traveling ladies of all ages. Whether alone or in groups, voyaging halfway across the world or taking a simple day hike, women can find funny, instructive, and inspiring advice covering everything from travel basics like packing, tipping, and staying within budget to information tailored especially to women: health and hygiene, thwarting unwelcome advances, safety and security, and romance on the road. This fully revised edition incorporates new advice and wisdom on a variety of relevant topics, including first-time travel, traveling alone, the online travel community, mother-daughter trips, traveling with children, resources for older women, and much more. This revised and expanded edition is a thoughtful gift for any woman heading out to see the world, or even the nearest town over.

Offers a collection of the best travel writing. This title enables the readers to: explore the mysteries of superstition in Cameroon; discover the meaning of life talking to an Irish carpenter on an plane; take adopted children to Korea on a Homeland Tour; and, delve deep into the sacred Japanese pilgrimage route.

Life is harsh in mid-19th-century New York, where 15-year-old orphaned Irish immigrant Billy Gogan lands to make his way in the Five Points, the city's greatest slum. He learns about political corruption, love, and the ephemeral nature of being as he faces forces much stronger than himself. His pluck and wits keep him a step ahead of disaster while he chases his dreams.

100 Places in Greece Every Woman Should Go, a series of 100 essays overflowing with charm, wit, and wisdom, is an indispensable tool to plan your next trip to a country where the voices of the goddesses still whisper in the winds. Uncover the unexpected charms of Athens, float down the real River Styx, and learn of miraculous healing involving snakes, saintly relics, and women's underwear. Learn how Corinth’s ancient temple prostitution gives new meaning to the term “sex and the city,” and discover an ancient mystery cult on Lesbos. Sail to Leros, birthplace of Artemis and an island known as a destination for the insane, and make a stop on Skopelos to see that fantastic cliff top church where Meryl Streep belted out Abba tunes.With style, intelligence, and personal anecdotes, archaeologist and award-winning travel writer Amanda Summer is your personal guide to the best of Greece. Crisp, humorous storytelling introduces the temples, shrines, grottoes, and churches of this magnificent country, intricately woven with stories of the women — from goddesses to artistic legends like Melina Mercouri and Maria Callas.Sexy, scholarly and spiritual, 100 Places in Greece Every Woman Should Go is a must for every traveler.

Stand back! The tales in this raunchy round-the-world romp might get you dirty.We've all had unspeakable experiences while traveling that we're ashamed to admit, but these often become our best stories in the retelling. The writers in this collection cast inhibition aside and reveal their weirdest and worst moments and how they made the best of them. And memorable moments in exotic destinations come in all shapes and sizes: insects as big as Pam Anderson’s left tit, regrettable sex, stink-eyed officials, horrible healers, Lady Gaga’s shoes and Madonna’s special meal, trigger-happy militants, and peeping Tom rock stars.Adventure vicariously as:Spud Hilton (not Monty Python) finds the Holy Grail by accident.Meghan Ward squats, and then the toilet grunts back, in Goa.Kasha Rigby proved how tough she is on National Geographic’s Ultimate Survival Alaska, but is she a match for a 90-year-old bone breaker in Guatemala?Namibians stereotype Chinese men as Bruce Lee—Gerald Yeung wonders if attacking baboons will do the same.Keph Senett (hoping not to follow in the footsteps of Pussy Riot) braves bombs, police and a Soviet-era sofa bed to play soccer at the LGBT games in Putin’s Russia.Jabba-the-Turd versus Shannon Bradford in an epic showdown in Argentina.And many more….

Rife with misadventures, brushes with death, and moments of existential insight, The End of the World Notwithstanding is a hilarious yet reflective look at the emotional experiences that make everyday life exciting-and the physical ones that remind us we're lucky to be alive. I'm traveling alone, renting a cabin at a normally tranquil spot-that's called foreshadowing-on the banks of the Big Laramie River at the edge of the Medicine Bow National Forest. So begins Janna L. Goodwin's lighthearted collection of nail-biting stories, all true, and all of which fill the listener with wonder ... as in, "I wonder how any of us survives?" Encounters with wildfire, insects, house pets, weather, gravity, predators, bullies, and the most potent force of all-fear itself-unfold in remote landscapes of the American West (and Midwest); on the neon-splashed sidewalks of Hollywood; at a Catskills summer camp for actors; in the lavish apartment of a famous senator; in a Hawaiian beach condo; on the side of a mountain above the Mediterranean Sea; and far beneath the streets of Paris. Goodwin looks for and ultimately finds meaning (if not security) in a clear-eyed acknowledgment of our shared, human condition-and in laughter.

Cameron has been Rick Steves¿ right hand for more than 20 years, collaborating on guidebooks and other travel content; the book includes a Foreword by Rick Steves, and Rick appears frequently throughout the storiesRick Steves¿ Europe is one of North Americäs most trusted travel brands, well known to travelers and public television viewers; Rick Steves is considered an icon of independent travelRick Steves is the bestselling guidebook series in North America (around 800,000 copies annually)This is a highly comparable product to Rick Steves¿ 2020 collection, For the Love of EuropeCameron is well-known to Rick Steves fans; he is frequently featured on Rick¿s website, radio show, and social media channels, and his Facebook page has 28,000+ followersThe Rick Steves¿ Europe public television series, and the Travel with Rick Steves public radio program, are both broadcast nationwide, reaching an audience of millions; Rick Steves tours take tens of thousands of American travelers to Europe each year (30,000+ customers in 2019)The Rick Steves brand has a strong reach on both social media (800,000+ Facebook followers with high engagement) and conventional media; recently, Rick has been profiled/featured in The New York Times Magazine, CBS Sunday Morning, The Atlantic, and The New YorkerBroad target audience, including: anyone who enjoys Rick Steves¿ TV shows, guidebooks, and tours; anyone who loves traveling in Europe; anyone interested in the work of a professional travelerThe stories feature a wide range of European locales, both popular (Tuscany, Scotland, Provence, Spain) and niche (Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Poland)Cameron¿s story ¿A Visit to Chernobyl: Travel in the Postapocalypse¿ was anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing 2019Rick Steves Iceland won the Gold Prize in the Guidebook category for the SATW Lowell Thomas Awards in 2017-2018

Like a box of Italian sweets, La Dolce Vita University (LDVU) is the perfect sampler for anyone curious about (or already in amore with) Italy and its remarkably rich cultural gifts. The 200 mini-essays, arranged alphabetically and accompanied by charming illustrations, treat specific topics in one or more of the following subject areas: the Italian character; the visual arts (art, artists, architects); the performing arts (music, theater, cinema); history and antiquity; language and literature; cuisine and agriculture; wine and spirits; traditions and festivals; style and applied arts; unique places.

Exiled from Yugoslavia, Tania Romanov's family immigrated to a promising future in San Francisco. But her Russian father's resistance to assimilation leaves her with deep resentment-and unanswered questions after his death. Serendipity and a descendant of the Tsar catapult Tania on a life-changing quest for forgiveness and redemption.

This 12th volume in the popular series presents the best travel writing by women for women that's been done in the past few years. Adventures range from a trip into a new neighborhood to expeditions to the far corners of the globe, always with the inner journey close at hand to give perspective and meaning. The voices are diverse, intimate, and engaging, as are the stories.

Laugh along and learn how to deal with traveler's diarrhea, unhealthy water, weird foods, strange toilets, dehydration, gastroenteritis, immunization, lack of adequate hygiene, worms, snakes, spiders and leeches, "going" outside, bathing, the special problems of children, issues with seniors, and so much more. Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth is the expert on the subject!

The creative spark resides in all of us, but some activate that spark more than others. In 50-plus interviews, musicians, authors, explorers and chefs speak about what drives them, how they see in fresh ways, and what inspires them to turn their visions into art.

In a timely account at this moment in the #MeToo movement, author Natalie Galli, of Sicilian-American heritage, travels on a personal odyssey to find the girl who broke a thousand-year-old Sicilian tradition that allowed kidnap and rape in pursuit of marriage. In the process, Galli uncovers a family secret, encounters the long arm of the Mafia, and discovers new strengths in herself as she successfully completes her quest.

Having fled New York and all he knows in fear for his life, Billy Gogan enlists in the U.S. Army on the eve of the Mexican-American War. Amidst the bloodshed, he is sent on a mission with the Texas Rangers, which ends in a tragic war crime. Billy's latest adventure leaves him on a lonely rooftop as the battle rages about him.

Introduction by Rolf Potts, author of Marco Polo Didn't Go There and Vagabonding

These just might be the strangest stories you've ever read.

Since publishing A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized leader in women's 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 women's travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual series-The Best Women's Travel Writing-that presents 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 are a woman's perspective and 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 2011, readersHave lunch with a mobster in Japan and drinks with an IRA member in IrelandLearn the secrets of flamenco in Spain and the magic of samba in BrazilDeliver a trophy for best testicles in a small town in rural SerbiaFall in love while riding a camel through the Syrian DesertSki a first descent of over 5,000 feet in Northern IndiaDiscover the joy of getting naked in South KoreaLeave it all behind to slop pigs on a farm in Ecuador...and much more.

Any woman whose passport has been stamped a few times knows the surest method of keeping her travel fire alive: by reading and telling stories from the road, passing them along like a torch in a relay race.From Travelers' Tales comes The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the World-the eighth collection in the annual best-selling, award-winning series that invites readers to ride shotgun alongside intrepid female nomads as they travel the world to discover new places, people, and facets of themselves. The stories in this year's edition are as diverse as the geographic locations, the common thread being fresh, compelling storytelling from a woman's perspective aimed at making readers laugh, weep, wish they were there, or be glad they weren't.In The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8, readers will:Fend off angry bulls on a mountaintop in KyrgyzstanStart a new life in a boat on the GangesClimb the Great Wall with a 9-month-old and a 91-year-oldBattle it out with an alter ego in a jungle in MexicoLearn about survival in a slum in Rio de JaneiroWalk the Camino de Santiago from France to SpainFind romance in a strip club in Oman and a boat in BelizeDiscover family in Sicily, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Zambia... and much more.

Since 1993, readers have looked to Travelers' Tales for award-winning stories about the world, adventure, spirituality, and the transformative experiences that accompany life on the road. The Best Travel Writing 2008 is the fifth volume in the series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - much of it never before published - from Nobel Prize winners to up-and-coming new writers. The stories provide a perspective and depth of understanding that can only come from people who have actually been there, and encompass everything from high adventure to misadventure, spiritual growth to romance, service to humanity to encounters with exotic cuisines. Reading the book is like sitting in a café filled with fellow travelers, swapping tales about destinations near and far - readers emerge changed, eager for more, and ready to plan their next trips.

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.

Ten years of the best travel stories of the year from the Solas Awards bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring, uplifting, and, very often, transformative, all powerful and moving testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and places.

The Road Within is a book of transformation, of lessons learned, maps drawn and burned, and spiritual blessings bestowed by that great and hard teacher — travel. Learn what mystics and saints have always known — that wondrous things await people who are in touch with themselves, with the world, and with God. Authors featured in this very different kind of travel book include Annie Dillard, Huston Smith, Natalie Goldberg, Andrew Harvey, Barry Lopez, and Bill Buford.

In The Best Women's 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 weren't. The Best Women's Travel Writing speaks to the reasons why we travel-and how travel changes our lives.In The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World, you'll:Study the ancient art of belly dancing in EgyptGo day-drinking with a sea captain in CroatiaScuba dive through an underground cave in MexicoRun from massive exploding balloons in BurmaEmbed with the military in AfghanistanExperience a different kind of time in ArgentinaGo dogsledding in FinlandConfront heartache, pain, and a deadly creature in IndonesiaNegotiate with smugglers in MongoliaMarry a stranger at Burning Man... and much, much more.

Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized national leader in women's 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 women's travel writing of the year. This title is the eleventh in that series-The Best Women's 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 wasn't. The points of view and perspectives are global, and 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.The 31 true travel stories in this year's collection are, as always, wildly diverse in theme and location. They tell of places like California and Cuba, Switzerland and Singapore, Iran and Iceland, Montana and Mexico and Mongolia and Mali, our own back yards and some of the farthest, most extreme corners of the world. They are the personal stories we can't help but collect when we travel, stories of reaching out to embrace the unfamiliar and creating cross-cultural connections while learning more about ourselves. In The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 11, you will: go scuba diving with sharks in Palaucook for Syrian refugees in Greecebe the first American to play pro basketball in the Czech Republicanger a nun in Ethiopiago whitewater rafting on the Nile in Ugandahelp slaughter a pig in Hungaryrealize your limits of filial piety in Singaporeseek healing at the hands of a witchdoctor in Mexico feast on rancid food in Icelandavoid hypothermia by spooning in Mongoliafall in love in Nepal... and much, much more.

With its breezy reviews and insightful advice, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go encourages women of any age to see the world - in a group, with a friend, or solo - and inspires them to create their own list of dreams. Based on her own explorations of many countries, states, and regions, and on interviews with travelers, award-winning author Stephanie Elizondo Griest highlights 100 special destinations and challenging activities - from diving for pearls in Bahrain to racing a camel, yak, or pony across Mongolia; to dancing with voodoo priestesses in Benin and urban cowboys in Texas; to taking a mud bath in a volcano off the coast of Colombia. Divided into such sections as "Places Where Women Made History,” "Places of Indulgence,” and "Places of Adventure,” this guidebook includes timely contact information, resources, and recommended reading. "Ten Tips For Wandering Women” features safety precautions plus pointers on haggling, packing, and staying parasite-free. Vivid portraits of free spirits like Frida Kahlo ("A tequila-slamming, dirty joke-telling smoker, this famous artist was bisexual and beautiful”) help travelers expand their experience.