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With its breezy reviews and insightful advice, this title encourages women of any age to see the world--in a group, with a friend, or solo--and inspires them to create their own list of dreams. Griest highlights 100 special destinations and challenging activities.

Rife with misadventures, brushes with death, and moments of existential insight, The End of the World Notwithstanding is a hilarious yet reflective look at the emotional experiences that make everyday life exciting-and the physical ones that remind us we're lucky to be alive. I'm traveling alone, renting a cabin at a normally tranquil spot-that's called foreshadowing-on the banks of the Big Laramie River at the edge of the Medicine Bow Natio...

Filled with practical advice from an internationally known MD and humorous anecdotes from other travellers.

BABOONS FOR LUNCH And Other Sordid Adventures is a rollicking collection of travel stories by an explorer who has spent two decades visiting the most remote tribal societies on earth. It is adventure travel, storytelling, literature, and humor, from the world's most remote corners as an intrepid city dweller encounters ancient peoples for the first time.

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These just might be the strangest stories you've ever read.

Like a box of Italian sweets, La Dolce Vita University (LDVU) is the perfect sampler for anyone curious about (or already in amore with) Italy and its remarkably rich cultural gifts. The 165 mini-essays, arranged alphabetically and accompanied by charming illustrations throughout, treat specific topics in one or more of the following subject areas: the Italian character, the visual arts (art, artists, architects), the performing arts (music, t...

If you think you know what's the worst than can happen while traveling, the essayists in Not So Funny When it Happened will set you straight. In over 30 scathingly funny pieces, a diverse array of authors shows just how quickly a pleasant vacation can turn into an embarrassing anecdote. In Vietnam, John Wood invents increasingly elaborate fictions to explain his ex-wife's "accidental death" in order to avoid humiliating himself by admitting he...

What is it about Japan that so beguiles foreigners? It is a small country and yet an economic powerhouse, a land of great natural beauty — from green-cloaked mountains to glistening rice paddies — a place of intricate arts and crafts and amazing cuisine, and home to a people whose kindness and sensitivity surprise westerners at each turn. It is no wonder that Japan simultaneously astonishes, delights, and frustrates travelers, and the diverse ...

Antarctica's legend as a fascinating, forbidding place is confirmed and expanded in these insider articles. Covering everything from "Happy Camper School” to washing dishes to what it's like to fall in love in a place where the sun never goes down (or never comes up), these articles limn a world of colorful characters (human and otherwise) and breathtaking backdrops. The humor runs high here in work by Karen Joyce, who recounts an odd afternoo...

Ten years of the best travel stories of the year from the Solas Awards bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring, uplifting, and, very often, transformative, all powerful and moving testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and places.

Italy is the top tourist destination in Europe. But while the pleasures of Tuscany, Milan, Venice, Florence, and Rome are well known and well documented, Puglia remains relatively undiscovered. Venturing in Italy collects 30 true stories that explore every aspect of this fascinating region. The book’s 19 writers, including Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Joanna Biggar, and Laurie King, find stories everywhere they look, greatly helped by Puglia's ric...

100 Places in the USA Every Woman Should Go is a lively and highly subjective collection of places that will educate, illuminate, entertain, challenge, or otherwise appeal to women of all kinds. From historic (such as the Women's Rights National Historic Park) to kitschy (SPAM museum), these places and activities provide a wide-angle view of all that makes America, America.

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Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in flux than in Berlin, that sprawling metropolis located on the fault line of history. A short-lived fever-dream of modernity in the Roaring Twenties, redubbed Germania and primped up into the megalomaniac fantasy of a Thousand-Year Reichstadt in the Thirties, reduced in 1945 to a divided rubble heap, subsequently revived in a schizoid state of post-World W...

Women in the Wild is a collection of striking stories of women who sought adventure in the extremes of nature and their own inner worlds. Some women are wild by nature, others discover their wildness by going into nature. The women in these tales delve into the wilderness, explore remote jungle rivers, climb Mt. Everest, and even survive a shark attack. Such adventures take them away from modern life and the distractions of domesticity, and in...

Our modern-day, multimedia, information-obsessed world has fundamentally altered much of what we do on a day-to-day basis, including the ways we shop, communicate, and learn. There are more tools telling us how to spend our free time than ever before, telling us not only where to go but also how to get there, what it will look like, and why we should go in the first place. This proliferation of guidebook material, this "guidebook evolution, " ...

For dog lovers, there is no more wrenching experience than having to look into a dog's eyes before heading off for a trip. A collection of the best travel writing by those who didn't (or couldn't) say goodbye, "It's A Dog's World" features stories by those who packed up the chew toys and took Fido along for the ride. Contributors include Pico Iyer, John Steinbeck, Helen Thayer, Gary Paulsen, James Herriot, and Susan Allen Toth, with an introdu...

Asia has an exotic appeal for many Westerners--from its rich and ancient civilization, spirituality, and mysticism, to its high mountain peaks, tropical backwaters, and beautiful Taj Mahal. This collection of inspiring and entertaining stories by women highlights travels through this alluring part of the world.

What happens when a Korean-American preacher's kid refuses to get married, travels the world, and quits being vegetarian? She meets her polar opposite on an online dating site while sitting at a cafe in Paris, France and ends up in Paris, Maine, learning how to hunt. A memoir and a cookbook with recipes that skewer human foibles and celebrates DIY food culture, Deer Hunting in Paris is an unexpectedly funny exploration of a vanishing way of li...