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Highly Recommended
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia  •  Elizabeth Gilbert
LITERATURE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES
Gilbert chronicles in luminous prose a year-long odyssey not just to escape from an ugly divorce but also to discover the world and herself. The book, like her quest, is in three parts: Rome (eat), Mumbai (pray) and Bali (where she falls in love). (TVL107, $15.00)		   Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Maiden Voyages, Writings of Women Travelers  •  Larry O'Connor  •  Mary Morris
ANTHOLOGY •  1993 •  PAPER  • 438 PAGES
With contributions by such literary lionesses as Margaret Mead, Willa Cather, and Mary Wollstonecraft, to name a few, this pleasurable anthology is a who's who of female letters. (GEN210, $15.00)		   Maiden Voyages, Writings of Women Travelers
Tales of a Female Nomad  •  Rita Gelman
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 306 PAGES
In this wonderful book, Rita outlines a bold mid-life plan to reinvent her life by exploring the world. She lives in each place for extended periods of time -- sometimes for years -- immersing, absorbing, making dear friends and giving back generously in the process. Her energy, intelligence, trust and utter trustworthiness, and her intense curiosity come through loud and clear. Not just a good book, these tales leave you with the feeling that you have gained a trusted friend who has given you a window into the world. Recommendation kindly contributed by Marilyn Staff, Asia Transpacific Adventures. (TVL94, $14.95)		   Tales of a Female Nomad
North to the Orient  •  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
EXPLORATION •  1966 •  PAPER  • 168 PAGES
A classic account of pioneering aviation, this wonderfully written memoir of the great circle route from New York to the Tokyo includes Anne Morrow Lindbergh's adventures in Petropavlovsk and the Russian Far East, Japan and the Yangtze. (ARC36, $12.95)		   North to the Orient
The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers  •  Mary Morris  •  Larry O'Connor
EXPLORATION •  2007 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
An anthology of mostly British and American women writing around the world, with diverse selections including Mary Wollenstonecraft, Edith Wharton, Rose Macaulay, Gertrude Bell and Freya Stark. With archival and color photographs throughout. (EXP29, $24.95)		   The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers



Also Recommended

Fly Solo, The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone  •  Teresa Rodriguez Williamson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Packed with practical informtaion, history, culutre and suggestions of the absolute must-sees, this guide will have any girl globe-trotting in no time. (WLD81, $15.95)
 		  
They Made Their Mark, An Illustrated History of the Society of Woman Geographers  •  Jane Eppinga   • HISTORY  •  The inspiring story of the Society's members. (EXP65, $29.95)
 		  
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey  •  Lillian Schlissel   • HISTORY  •  A fascinating, well researched selection of women's diaries and journals from the Wild West, including vivid accounts of buffalo hunts, Indian raids, childbirth under difficult circumstances, geological wonders and a telling amount of inward trepidation. With black-and-white photographs throughout. (USW395, $16.95)
 		  
The Sisters of Sinai, How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels  •  Janet Soskice   • EXPLORATION  •  Soskice vividly recounts the story of Agnes and Margaret Smith, two unlikely and unsung heroines, and their discovery in 1892 of one of the earliest known copies of the gospels at St. Catherine's. (EGY334, $16.95)
 		  
The Wilder Shores of Love  •  Leslie Blanch   • EXPLORATION  •  A new edition of Lesley Blanch's spirited tale of the lives and loves of four uncommonly adventurous 19th-century European women in Arabia: Isabel Burton, Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Jane Digby and Isabelle Eberhardt. Originally published in 1954, this is the best known of Blanch's many books (Marianne Faithfull has a song of the same name). As unconventional as her heroines, Lesley Blanch died in 2007, at age 102. (EXP28, $15.00)
 		  
Women Aviators  •  Bernard Marck   • EXPLORATION  •  From Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride, these remarkable women defied tradition and took to the air in planes, rockets and spaceships. With hundreds of archival photographs, these profiles capture the thrill and derring-do of early flight. (GEN522, $45.00)
 		  
Women Travelers, Adventurers, and Trailblazers 1850-1950  •  Alexandra Lapierre  •  Christel Mouchard   • EXPLORATION  •  One hundred years of intrepid women, beautifully presented in an oversized hardcover with 200 black-and-white and color illustrations. (EXP50, $45.00)
 		  
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains  •  Isabella Bird   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Isabella Bird was an inspiring -- and intrepid -- Victorian traveler. This book collects her letters home to her sister Henrietta during travels through the Colorado Rockies in 1873, a side-trip she made on the way home from Hawaii. (USW44, $7.95)
 		  
A Woman's World Again, True Stories of World Travel  •  Marybeth Bond   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An anthology of contemporary travel writing by women writers, Bond's follow-up to her award-winning collection, A Woman's World. (TVL132, $17.95)
 		  
Adventure Divas, Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine  •  Holly Morris   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A lively account of globetrotting adventures by the creator of the popular PBS show. Author Holly Morris' search for spirited and inspiring women includes adventures in Cuba, India, Iran and New Zealand. (TVL95, $14.95)
 		  
Breaking Trail, A Climbing Life  •  Arlene Blum   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Blum reveals her transformation from scrawny girl in the flat Midwest to world-class climber in this inspirational memoir of a life in very high places: McKinley, Annapurna, Everest. (HML72, $14.00)
 		  
Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines  •  Julia Blackburn   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In this wonderfully original biography, Blackburn recreates the life of Daisy Bates (1861-1951), who abandoned her comfortable surroundings in 1913 to live for 30 years in the wilderness. It opens memorably "There was once a woman who lived in the desert." (AUS37, $15.00)
 		  
Desert Songs, A Woman Explorer in Egypt and Sudan  •  Arita Baaijens   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Having given up a traditional European life to explore the deserts of Egypt and Sudan, Baaijens recounts her passion for the desert's vistas and horizons, dangers and physical challenges, nomads and camels, in this personal photographic journal. (DES14, $34.95)
 		  
Dreaming of East, Western Women And the Exotic Allure of the Orient  •  Barbara Hodgson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Hodgson captures the vogue for everything Oriental in the Victorian era with a selection of drawings and photographs. (EXP38, $26.95)
 		  
Female Nomad & Friends, Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World  •  Rita Golden Gelman   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  In her follow-up to Tales of a Female Nomad, Gelman includes stories (including eight of her own) of personal connections through travel with recipes she's collected from all over the world. (TVL506, $15.00)
 		  
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations  •  Georgina Howell   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The tale of intoxicating, intrepid Major Miss Bell, who made her home in Baghdad. She created modern Iraq with T. E. Lawrence and Churchill. (ARB82, $16.00)
 		  
I Married Adventure, The Lives of Osa and Martin Johnson  •  Osa Johnson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Sweetly told, homespun and engrossing, Johnson's 1940 memoir chronicles her marriage to explorer and wildlife cinematographer Martin Johnson -- their life on a houseboat in Borneo, their encounters with cannibals, their exploits with wild animals in Kenya and their filming expeditions in the Congo. Osa Johnson also established the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum in her hometown of Chanute, Kansas. (PAC110, $19.95)
 		  
Ladies of the Field, Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure  •  Amanda Adams   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Adams's sprightly group biography includes the remarkable Gertrude Bell, daring Harriet Boyd-Hawes and Dame Agatha Christie along with Jane Dieulafoy, Amelia Edwards, Dorothy Garrod and Zelia Nuttall, each of these Victorian adventurers brought vividly to life. (GEN957, $17.99)
 		  
Libby  •  Libby Beaman  •  Betty John   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  From her storm-bound arrival in Alaska's Pribilof Islands to her reception by the local population, tales of fur seals and her near-death of cold and malnutrition, Libby Beaman's tale of a year in St. Paul in 1879 is a great story, brought to life by her granddaughter Betty John. (ARC07, $16.95)
 		  
Life in the Treetops, Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology  •  Margaret Lowman   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The sprightly memoir of an ecologist who climbs, studies and sleeps in trees for a living, balancing multiple roles of scientist, wife and mom. Margaret Lowman, a pioneer in the ecology of forest tree canopies, continues her story in a second memoir (written with her now-grown sons). (AMZ57, $13.95)
 		  
My Journey to Lhasa  •  Alexandra David-Neel   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Dressed as a humble pilgrim and traveling under the cover of night, the indomitable 55-year-old David-Neel and her young companion climbed mountains and tricked soldiers to ultimately reach Tibet's forbidden capital. Originally published in 1923, her account stands as a riveting portrait of early 20th-century Tibet. (TBT26, $14.99)
 		  
Nothing to Declare  •  Mary Morris   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE • COMING IN  •  An absorbing memoir of a woman traveling alone throughout Mexico and Central America. Morris, a favorite writer, evokes the people and places she visits in gritty immediate detail. (CAM08, $15.00)
 		  
Passionate Nomad, the Life of Freya Stark  •  Jane Fletcher Geniesse   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A biography of the legendary female "poet of travel," Freya Stark. (MDE28, $15.95)
 		  
The Nomad, The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt  •  Isabelle Eberhardt   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The daring adventures of the late 19th-century Swiss journalist who adopted Islam and traveled the Sahara disguised as an Arab man. (NAF59, $12.95)
 		  
West with the Night  •  Beryl Markham   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE  •  Markham evokes the landscapes, people and wildlife of East Africa in engrossing detail in this memoir of adventures as a bush pilot in 1930s Kenya. A Longitude favorite. (EAF10, $17.00)
 		  
Women of the Four Winds  •  Elizabeth Olds   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A collection of four lively biographies of four 20th-century American explorers. (EXP19, $21.95)
 		  
Ines of My Soul  •  Isabel Allende   • LITERATURE  •  Allende turns the amazing life of Spanish conquistadora and founder of Santiago, Ines Suarez (1507-1580), into a gripping novel. (CHI73, $14.99)
 		  
Off the Beaten Track. Three Centuries of Women Travellers  •  Dea Birkett  •  Jan Morris   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A marvelous selection of portraits of raveling women, with 120 illustrations, 100 in color. (TVL39, $40.00)
 		  
Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures, Funny Women Write from the Road  •  Jennifer Leo   • ANTHOLOGY  •  The weird and wonderful tales of women on the road chosen by the entertaining, well-traveled (and delightful) Jennifer Leo. (TVL54, $14.95)
 		  
The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys, Great Writers on Great Places  •  Klara Glowczewska   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Twenty-one transporting tales by Simon Winchester, Pico Iyer, William Dalrymple, Patricia Storace, Edna O'Brien, Jan Morris and other favorite writers published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Conde Nast Traveler. (TVL127, $16.00)
 		  
Unsuitable for Ladies, An Anthology of Women Travellers  •  Jane Robinson   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A choice sampling of the writing of 200 remarkable women, organized geographically. From the Victorian-era derring-do of Mary Kingsley to Florence Nightingale's war diaries, Karen Blixen on her farm in Africa and recent adventures of the indomitable Dervla Murphy, these are inspiring and wonderfully written accounts of travel. (EXP18, $24.95)
 		  
 
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