The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World
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The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World
By (Author) Lavinia Spalding
10
Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
2nd January 2015
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Anthologies: general
Physical Properties
Hardback
320
Width 130mm, Height 203mm
396g
Description
Since publishing the original edition ofA Woman's Worldin 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.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.
Reviews
Praise for the Best Women's Travel Writing series:
"This book will grace my bedside for years to come. " Simon Winchester
"Delightful (and sometimes dreadful) wayfaring adventures from all corners of the globe." The Washington Post
"There is real drama and comedy in these pages." San Francisco Chronicle
"An inspiration and a fine read for anyone who is missing the open road." Transitions Abroad
"Even as a veteran traveler, I found new revelations here." Herbert Gold
Author Bio
Lavinia Spalding has edited three previous volumes of The Best Womens Travel Writing. She is also the author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler and With a Measure of Grace, the Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant, and she introduced the reissued e-book edition of Edith Whartons classic travelogue, A Motor-Flight Through France. Her writing appears in numerous print and online publications, including Sunset, Yoga Journal, San Francisco magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, and The Best Travel Writing. She lives in San Francisco, where she is a resident of the Writers' Grotto and co-founder of Weekday Wanderlust, a monthly travel reading series.
