Our Trip Around the World

(Paperback)

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KEY SELLING POINTS:

The author is an energetic, charming, and dynamic storyteller.

Travel writing by women in the 1950s is very tough to find, and there is likely a good market for writing of this type from that era.

The story is unique and extraordinary in terms of the places the two women travelled to in a three-year period.

The writing style will appeal to readers of Freya Stark, Gertrude Bell, and Beryl Markham....all female travel writers and adventurers from the early 20th century.

The scenes shift from Europe to North Africa and Asia to Canada.

There is a great collection of photos from all of their trips, which will be included in a photo section.

This is an interesting hybrid of mountaineering and travel writing, as the two protagonists ended up climbing mountains without knowing any better!

Reviews

Renate Belczyk's account of her travels around the world with her childhood friend Sigrid is nothing short of remarkable. The world may have changed since the 1950s, but Our Trip Around the World demonstrates that perhaps if we all embodied Belczyk's pure thirst for adventure and her openness to connect with strangers, we might experience the world the way she once did. --Meghan J. Ward, outdoor, travel and adventure writer

The story of two women travelling alone, in a period when that was rarely done, opened up a crazy amount of experiences and even though those adventures intrigued the reporters who followed them, I don't believe Renate or Sigrid realized just how cool they were. It's about time this book came out. --Katrina Rosen, author of With You By Bike: One Couple's Life-Changing Journey Around the World

Author Bio

Renate Belczyk has spent a great deal of time adventuring in the backcountry of the Canadian Rockies and Columbian mountains, where shes worked as a ski camp cook and kindergarten teacher. During the past 50 years she has visited Peru, Pakistan, Tibet, China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Mongolia, Bhutan, Syria, Jordan, New Zealand, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Russia, and all of Europe. She has paddled the Amazon River, canoed the Mackenzie from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk, and walked around Mount Kailash in Tibet. Now in her 80s, she lives in Castlegar, British Columbia.