Praise -- WOMEN'S TRAVEL LITERATURE FROM TRAVELERS' TALES -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- Where the Roads Diverged - On Easter Island, a traveler finds her home and heart. -- On Down the Road - Nobody said changing her life would be easy. -- Close Encounters - A kayaker goes in search of icebergs and whales off ... -- Big Cats, No Guns - In Africa, life is good-when you're not on the menu. -- Risen - Artichokes, goat meat, bread sublime enough to raise the dead-it must ... -- Up a Creek without a Paddle - An intrepid traveler faces the Amazon-at night. -- My Mexican Housewife - A student helps her host mother reclaim her youth. -- Tosi and Me - Her stay in South Africa was different from all things ... -- By Any Other Name: A Love Story - In the damp cellar of a Loire Valley château, ... -- Lines and Angles - She struggled with the poverty in India-and with herself. -- Ylli's Gifts - They found a modern-day Ulysses on an Albanian beach. -- Lost in Jamaica - In Negril, a town founded by hippies, the author explores its ... -- The Ringer - An American girl plays the field in Kenya. -- Becoming Coco - She found her inner Chanel at the Paris Ritz. -- Perfect Sitting - A meditation retreat in Japan becomes a battle between mind ... -- Where No Traveler Had Gone Before - The famed Scottish castle paled in comparison. -- Taklamakan Desert Moon Ride - The only woman in her group, this forty-something ... -- Homecoming Istanbul - An expatriate in Turkey reflects on her life and choices. -- Pain and Pleasure in Liguria - When traveling off-season in Italian mushroom ... -- Rite of Passage - Was she the kind of person who could jump from an airplane? -- Out of India - The lesson she learned about India became clear only in London.

Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch - An American tiptoes through German grammar and culture. -- A Woman Alone, A Woman Alone - As a foreign teacher in Laos, she might well ... -- Orange Who? - She navigated between two desires: to be both free and at home. -- In the Shadow of Potocchi - In Peru, the author shares a bittersweet homecoming ... -- Requiem for a Little Red Ship - She never understood why people referred to ... -- Al-Ajnabiya (the Foreigner) - A solo traveler to Jordan finds solace in the ... -- Fish Out of Water - In a Bahamian resort, three sisters experience the ... -- A Station on the Way - A handsome young Italian offers a grieving mother ... -- Speaking the Same Language - A mother and her daughters learn Spanish-and life ... -- Memories of Stone - In a Japanese temple, she stumbled upon small statues ... -- Return - A quarter of a century later, a mother and daughter relive the past in Barcelona. -- Mexican Rain - In a town full of "whispered secrets," love and loss are inevitable. -- Bread, Clay, and the Spanish Civil War - A potter in an Andalucían village ... -- Passport Past - Her old adventurous self lives on. -- Acknowledgements -- ABOUT THE EDITOR -- Copyright Page.