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The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011: True Stories from Around the World

The Best Women's Travel Writing series

Since publishing A Woman's Worldin 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 series—The Best Women's Travel Writing—that 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.

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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.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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