100 Places Every Woman Should Go
10 best books like 100 Places Every Woman Should Go (Stephanie Elizondo Griest): Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers, Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road, Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure, Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives, Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World, Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo
| Author | Tanya Shaffer |
| ISBN | 1400032598 |
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
| Author | Barbara Hodgson |
| ISBN | 1580084419 |
While it's a noticeable improvement over my last attempt at reading a book about female travelers, No Place for a Lady still wasn't what I was hoping for.
My main disappointment was the book's superficial feel. Some of that likely has to do with its location-based organization, which turns...
| Author | Mary Morris |
| ISBN | 0312199414 |
Traveling from the highland desert of northern Mexico to the steaming jungles of Honduras, from the seashore of the Caribbean to the exquisite highlands of Guatemala, Mary Morris, a celebrated writer of both fiction and nonfiction, confronts the realities of place, poverty, machismo, and selfhood....
The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding when she decides to follow an ancient Indian...
| Author | Christina Henry De Tessan |
| ISBN | 1580050700 |
For generations, literary figures from Ernest Hemingway to Frances Mayes have fueled our fantasies about the romance of expatriate life. But it’s one thing to dream about living abroad and quite another to actually do it. In Expat a diverse group of women explores in vivid detail how the reality of...
| Author | Jennifer L. Leo |
| ISBN | 1885211929 |
Travel isn’t always what we dream it will be, but...oh the stories that follow! For the 25 women in this book who packed their sense of humor as they traveled from Alaska to Zanzibar, the journey brought tales of misadventure that their children and grandchildren, and readers of this book, will never...
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 1932361448 |
Yikes, just when I had read one in this series that rated average, it slipped back down to below average again. And to add insult to injury, this book shared some stories with some of their other books that I've read (Whose Panties are These, Sand in my Bra, and more). I mean, if you don't have time enough to...
| Author | Sadie Smith |
| ISBN | 0756653991 |
Off the Tourist Trail is a guide to the world's unspoiled sights and experiences. It takes a hundred clichéd tourist destinations - everything from over-visited national parks to overrated museums - and reveal 1,000 fresh and fascinating alternative options. Written by a team of travel experts,...
| Author | Rita Golden Gelman |
| ISBN | 0307588017 |
In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She has...
| Author | Beth Whitman |
| ISBN | 0978728092 |
This comprehensive guide for women travelers is filled with safety tips, anecdotes, resources and information on how to start planning a dream journey. The book dispels the myths that solo travel is dangerous and provides straightforward advice on making the most of your travels while having the...
Make the Most of Your Time on Earth: A Rough Guide to the World with 1000 must-do experiences from around the world.
Make the Most of Your Time on Earth is a book that will inspire everyone. Perfect for both the seasoned traveller and the armchair dreamer, it brings you the very best travel experiences...
| Author | Marybeth Bond |
| ISBN | 1885211155 |
This is an indispensable handbook full of information that can save you time, trouble and maybe even your life. Women make up the largest segment of the traveling population and many of them are choosing to travel alone. When I was a student for a summer session in England I walked the streets of London...
| Author | Steve Davey |
| ISBN | 1552979555 |
An inspiring exploration of the forty most memorable travel destinations in the world.
As travelers become more experienced and sophisticated, they become more discriminating about their destinations. Many are seeking the unusual and avoiding the routine and predictable tours.
Unforgettable...
| Author | National Geographic Society |
| ISBN | 1426201257 |
No one knows the world like National Geographic—and in this lavish volume, we reveal our picks for the world's most fabulous journeys, along with helpful information for readers who want to try them out.
Compiled from the favorite trips of National Geographic's travel writers, Journeys...
| Author | Teresa Rodriguez Williamson |
| ISBN | 0399533109 |
There's a whole big world out there. Here's how every woman can get out and conquer it-solo.
This is an inspiring guide for women who want to "fly solo"-yet stay safe, sane, and solvent during their travels. With candid advice and insider's secrets about some of the most exciting places on earth,...
| Author | Don George |
| ISBN | 1741046068 |
Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, these experiences can give birth to our most profound travel lessons and illuminations,...
| Author | Jake Halpern |
| ISBN | 0618446621 |
“Part travelogue . . . part meditation on the meaning of home” (Wall Street Journal), Braving Home introduces readers to some of modern America’s most unusual, unforgettable pioneers. The cub reporter Jake Halpern — dubbed the Bad Homes Correspondent by his colleagues — sets out on a journey...
| Author | Doug Lansky |
| ISBN | 1843536617 |
Planning a trip around the world? Let First-Time Around the World get you started. Loaded with the very latest travel information, including all you need to know about round-the-world tickets, this pre-departure guide will help get your ultimate journey under way. The guide begins with a 16-page,...
Where To Go When (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
| Author | Joseph Rosendo |
| ISBN | 0756630738 |
I love DK books. (Is it weird to have a favorite publishers? Because mine is DK. Their books are always top quality.)
Anyway this is a great travel guide, giving the ins and outs of the best times to travel to certain destinations around the world during which time of the year. The book is chock full...
501 Must-Visit Destinations
| Author | David Brown |
| ISBN | 0753714167 |
The book is organized by continents and further more by countries. The pages are color coded which helps when looking for a specific location. There is a brief overview about each item and a picture included. Some of the most common questions, like Where is it? or How do I get there? or When is the best time...
| Author | Emily Hahn |
| ISBN | 0759240604 |
A revolutionary woman for her time, Emily Hahn takes us on an adventure through the many faces that populate the landscape of China. Blending fiction and non-fiction seamlessly, Emily Hahn looks at everything and everyone she met on her breath-taking journey through the China of the nineteen-thirties....
