The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World

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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 womans perspective and lively storytelling to make the reader laugh, cry, wish she were there, or be glad she wasnt. 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.

Author Bio

Lucy McCauley's travel essays have appeared in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times, Harvard Review, Science & Spirit, and Salon.com. She is series editor of Best Women's Travel Writing, and editor of three other Travelers' Tales anthologies - Spain (1995), Women in the Wild (1998), and A Woman's Path (2000), all of which have been reissued in the last few years. In addition, she has written case studies in Latin America for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and now works as a developmental editor for publishers such as Harvard Business School Press.