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A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe

10 best books like A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe (Faith Conlon): Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan, One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children, The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World, To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism, Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu, Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World

Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan
AuthorJamie Zeppa
At age 24 Jamie Zeppa, a Canadian who had never been outside of North America, said goodbye to her fiancé and her plans for graduate school and moved to Bhutan, a remote Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas.

Beyond the Sky and the Earth is an autobiographical work that details her experiences and...
One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
AuthorDavid Elliot Cohen
ISBN1885211651
A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an impossible dream for most people, one day David Cohen and his family decide to make it a reality. With his wife and three children,...
The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
AuthorAlden Jones
ISBN0299295702
Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden Jones investigates what motivates us to travel abroad in search of the unfamiliar. By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, Jones chronicles her experience...
Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa
AuthorTanya Shaffer
ISBN1400032598
“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....
360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World
AuthorJohn Higham
ISBN1593501080
Much more than a travel narrative 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World is a glimpse at what it means to be a “global citizen”—a progressively changing view of the world as seen through the eyes of an American family of four.

After more than a decade of planning,...
To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism
AuthorChuck Thompson
ISBN0805087885
The guru of extreme tourism sets out to face his worst fears in Africa, India, Mexico City, and—most terrifying of all—at Disney World

In the widely-acclaimed Smile When You're Lying, Chuck Thompson laid bare the travel industry's dirtiest secrets. Now he's out to discover if some of...
Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
AuthorKira Salak
ISBN0792274571
After 37 years of never reading about Mali, I have managed two books about that country in the last month. The previous book (The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts) gave more information about the history of the region, and informed my reading...
Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
AuthorMary Morris
ISBN0312199414
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....
Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman
AuthorAlice Steinbach
ISBN0812973607
This funny and tender book combines three of Alice Steinbach’s greatest passions: learning, traveling, and writing. After chronicling her European journey of self-discovery in Without Reservations, this Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun quit her job and left home again....
Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
AuthorHolly Morris
ISBN0375760636
After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited...
Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad
AuthorChristina Henry De Tessan
ISBN1580050700
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...
Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road
AuthorJennifer L. Leo
ISBN1885211929
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...
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
AuthorTim Cahill
ISBN1932361448
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...
A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust
AuthorMarybeth Bond
ISBN1932361146
"Passion: any kind of feeling or emotion—hope, fear, joy, grief, anger, love, desire—when vehement, overwhelming or of compelling force."

In this followup to the award-winning A Woman's World, meet women from all stages of life—college students and grandmothers, old friends and...
100 Places Every Woman Should Go
AuthorStephanie Elizondo Griest
ISBN1932361472
With its breezy reviews and insightful advice, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go 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. Based on her own explorations of many countries, states, and regions, and on interviews...
Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives
AuthorSadie Smith
ISBN0756653991
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,...
Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World
AuthorRita Golden Gelman
ISBN0307588017
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...
Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo
AuthorBeth Whitman
ISBN0978728092
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...
Married to Bhutan
AuthorLinda Leaming
ISBN1401928463
       Tucked away in the eastern end of the Himalayas lies Bhutan—a tiny, landlocked country bordering China and India. Impossibly remote and nearly inaccessible, Bhutan is rich in natural beauty, exotic plants and animals, and crazy wisdom. It is a place where people are genuinely content...
Make the Most of Your Time on Earth
AuthorPhil Stanton
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...
Across China
AuthorPeter Jenkins
ISBN0449214567
It's truly a rare thing for an American during that time period to have been able to traverse the width and breadth of China--and especially handy to have had an interpreter with him the whole time. I appreciate the insight into far-flung regions of China, and am frankly in awe and envious of the author's...
Walking the Gobi: A 1,600-Mile Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair
AuthorHelen Thayer

* The ultimate Baby Boomer adventure story!
* The author is an icon among American women adventurers
* By the bestselling author of Polar Dream
At the age of 63, Helen Thayer fulfilled her lifelong dream of crossing Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Accompanied by her 74-year-old husband Bill...
The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Grace Under Pressure: Extreme Etiquette for the Stickiest, Trickiest, Most Outrageous Situations of Your Life
AuthorKim Izzo
ISBN0767915488
Every Fabulous Girl knows that elegant manners, proper thank-you notes, the perfect pair of shoes, and basic social savoir faire will get you through many, if not most, of life’s occasions. But what about those special situations that every girl encounters—the wince-inducing, hair-curling...
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