The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011 : True Stories from Around the World.
Title:
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011 : True Stories from Around the World.
Author:
Spalding, Lavinia.
ISBN:
9781609520137
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (201 pages)
Series:
Best Women's Travel Writing
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Masha -- Returning -- Elvis Has Entered the Casa -- Of Mountains and Men -- Naked -- Beauty, Beauty -- I Am -- Going Underground -- A Hundred Unspoken Rules -- The Wind that Shakes the Barley -- The Labyrinth -- Belle of the Ball -- Unsilent Night -- The Boy with the Green Blanket -- Up the Río Frío One Last Time -- Blue Gates -- Aloha, with Love -- Jersey Girl -- Cab Fare -- The Rhythms of Arezzo -- The Goddess of Wealth -- Tongue-Tied -- Finding Gilbert -- Common Tongues -- Vice and Virtue -- Contratiempo -- In Lardo We Trust -- Ex Marks the Spot -- Carrefour -- Without Knowing I Had Ever Been Lost -- Traveling with Ghosts -- Missing Paris -- Fish Tale -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editor.
Abstract:
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 seriesThe Best Women's Travel Writingthat 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, readers Have lunch with a mobster in Japan and drinks with an IRA member in Ireland Learn the secrets of flamenco in Spain and the magic of samba in Brazil Deliver a trophy for best testicles in a small town in rural Serbia Fall in love while riding a camel through the Syrian Desert Ski a first descent of over 5,000 feet in Northern India Discover the joy of getting naked in South Korea Leave it all behind to slop pigs on a farm in Ecuador...and much more.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Genre:
Electronic Access:
Click to View