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1 online resource (466 pages) |
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Travelers' Tales |
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Travelers' Tales guides.
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Print version record. |
Summary |
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 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. This title is the ninth in that series?The Best Women's Travel Writing?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. T. |
Contents |
Acclaim for Travelers' Tales Books By and For Women; Women's Travel Literature from Travelers' Tales; Title Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph from Eleanor Roosevelt; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction; Barren in the Andes; Blot Out; Mucking About; Frogging Quintana; Remember this Night; Eight Million Miles; The Rice Man Cometh; A Day in Phnom Penh; Rangefinder Girl; The Codeine of Jordan; The Risky Path; Chasing Tornadoes; The Women's Sitting Room; The Mighty Big Love Test; Who Made this Grave?; Fill in the Blanks; Dreams from My Father; Business or Pleasure?; Connie Britton's Hair;We Wait for the SunHalf-Baked Decisions; The Road to Wounded Knee; The Saffron Rabbit; Leaving Kishinev; Yanet's Vintage Emporium; The Revolution; City of Beginnings; Discovery; The Black Bitch; Trust; Acknowledgments; About the Editor. |
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Travelers' writings -- Periodicals.
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Women travelers -- Anecdotes.
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Travelers -- Anecdotes.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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TRAVEL -- Budget.
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TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks.
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TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
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TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds.
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Travelers. (OCoLC)fst01155691
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Travelers' writings. (OCoLC)fst01155719
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Women travelers. (OCoLC)fst01178642
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Genre/Form |
Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
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Electronic books.
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Periodicals. (OCoLC)fst01411641
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Spalding, Lavinia, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Spalding, Lavinia. Best Women's Travel Writing : True Stories from Around the World. New York : Travelers' Tales, ©2013 9781609520847 |
ISBN |
9781609520861 (electronic bk.) |
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1609520866 (electronic bk.) |
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