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A Woman's Path: Women's Best Spiritual Travel Writing

10 best books like A Woman's Path: Women's Best Spiritual Travel Writing (Lucy McCauley): Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust, Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier, Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within, Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith, Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna, Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa, Celtic Devotional: Daily Prayers and Blessings, The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark

Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History
AuthorAlistair Moffat
The problem with prehistory is that there is no history. That is, there are no stories, no names, none of the usual hooks upon which we hang our understanding to enlighten, entertain and help us remember to guide us through the greater part of human existence. All there are, are mute remains and although...
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...
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...
Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier
AuthorBrenda Fowler
ISBN0226258238
On September 19, 1991 a couple hiking along an Alpine ridge stumbled upon a frozen, intact corpse melting out of a glacier. He was dubbed "the Iceman," and his discovery—along with the realization that he was actually 5,000 years old—set off a whirlwind of political, scientific, and media activity...
Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within
AuthorDennis Palumbo
ISBN0471382663
"Dennis Palumbo has great insight into a writer s psyche.... Every writer should have a shrink or this book. The book is cheaper."
--Gary Shandling, actor, comic, and writer "wise, compassionate, and funny..."
--Aram Saroyan, poet and novelist

"Dennis Palumbo provides a sense...
Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith
AuthorSuzanne Strempek Shea
ISBN0807072249
When Pope John Paul II died, Suzanne Strempek Shea, who had not been an active member of a church community for some years, recognized in his mourners a faith-filled passion that she longed to recapture in her own life. Shea, never one to do things in a conventional manner or by halves, set out on a pilgrimage...
Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna
AuthorChina Galland
ISBN0140195661
Read China Galland's posts on the Penguin Blog

With this book, China Galland brought increased attention to the spiritual traditions of the Black Madonna and other cross-cultural expressions of the feminine divine. The popularity of recent works by authors like Sue Monk Kidd and Kathleen...
Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa
AuthorAnn Jones
ISBN0375705333
The adventure began when a young British photographer, Kevin Muggleton, suggested driving from one end of Africa to the other–“You know, the old ‘Cape to Cairo’ sort of thing.” For the renowned feminist writer Ann Jones, it soon became an expedition with a mission: to find the legendary...
Celtic Devotional: Daily Prayers and Blessings
AuthorCaitlín Matthews
ISBN1592330436
Mirroring the ancient formulaic prayers to the elements found in the Celtic tradition, along with the wondrous invocations and declarations of the bards of the Scottish, Irish and Welsh traditions, Celtic Devotional provides a mystical doorway through which the modern person can re-invest their...
The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark
AuthorSera Beak
ISBN0787980544
The Red Book is nothing less than a spiritual fire starter -- a combustible cocktail of Hindu Tantra and Zen Buddhism, Rumi and Carl Jung, goddesses and psychics, shaken with cosmic nudges, meaningful subway rides, haircuts, relationships, sex, dreams, and intuition. Author Sera Beak's unique hybrid...
Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
AuthorJulia Whitty
ISBN0618119817
At the center of Deep Blue Home, a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it, is Whitty's description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It's a watery force connected to the...
The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind
AuthorRichard E. Leakey
ISBN0385468091
Richard Leakey, One Of The World's  Foremost Experts On Man's Evolutionary Past, Now Turns  His Eye To The Future And Doesn't Like What He  Sees.

To the philosophical the  earth is eternal, while the human race -- presumptive  keeper of the world's history -- is a mere speck  in...
The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Human Origins
AuthorJames Shreeve
ISBN0380728818
This prehistoric journey through Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, addressing the controversy surrounding the fate of the Neandertals, is "an extraordinarily clear presentation of the issues and the scientists behind them." -- New York Times Book Review. "Reading The Neanderthal Enigma is...
Pieces of White Shell
AuthorTerry Tempest Williams
ISBN0826309690
This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate...
Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun
AuthorFaith Adiele
Reluctantly leaving behind Pop Tarts and pop culture to battle flying rats, hissing cobras, forest fires, and decomposing corpses, Faith Adiele shows readers in this personal narrative, with accompanying journal entries, that the path to faith is full of conflicts for even the most devout. Residing...
Punctuated Equilibrium
AuthorStephen Jay Gould
ISBN0674024443
In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the career of one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of our time--perhaps the...
Human Osteology
AuthorTim D. White
ISBN0127466126
A classic in its field, "Human Osteology "has been used by students and professionals through nearly two decades. Now revised and updated for a third edition, the book continues to build on its foundation of detailed photographs and practical real-world application of science. New information,...
From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded
AuthorDonald C. Johanson
ISBN0743280644
In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America's most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered "Lucy", the oldest, best preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ever found. This discovery prompted a complete reevaluation of previous evidence for human...
Thailand
AuthorPhilip Cornwel-Smith
ISBN0756601746
đọc cuốn này chắc mắc cười nhất là lâu lâu coi trúng mấy cái wiki tiếng Việt hài thiệt hài, ví dụ có ông hoàng tử kia có cái tên dài thoòng xong wiki tiếng Việt dịch tên ổng là "ông Hoàng tử Hoàng tử Chitcharoen, các Hoàng tử Narisara Nuwattiwong"...
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science
AuthorJeff Meldrum
ISBN0765312174
In this landmark work on a subject too often dismissed as paranormal or disreputable, Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be written by a scientist with impeccable academic credentials. He gives an objective look at the facts in a field mined with hoaxes and sensationalism. Meldrum...
Journaling Toward Wholeness: A 28-Day Plan to Develop a Journaling Practice
AuthorMolly Totoro
How can journaling promote physical, spiritual and emotional healing?

While many people understand the benefits of journaling, they may struggle with the process. What is the best way to start?

28 Days to Develop a Journaling Practice helps overcome those initial obstacles.
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Travelers' Tales Thailand: True Stories
AuthorJames O'Reilly
ISBN1885211759
As a collection of stories from many different travelers who have walked, biked, climbed, swam, meditated, cooked, slept and been lost in Thailand, you are offered a lot of different points of view about the place and the people. The stories are, of course, all over the board in terms of both quality and...
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011: True Stories from Around the World
AuthorLavinia Spalding
ISBN1609520122
Since publishing A Woman’s World in 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...
Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives
AuthorNorman R. Yetman
ISBN0486409120
I learned so much reading these stories. If you had asked me why slavery was wrong, I would have said it is wrong to own another person. What I realized reading this book is that, subconsciously, it was the cruelty that really drove my view of slavery. What this book does is force you to reconsider slavery...
The New Quotable Einstein
AuthorAlbert Einstein
ISBN0691120757
For the first time in paperback, here is a newly expanded edition of the best-selling book that was hailed as "setting a new standard" for quotation books. Tens of thousands of readers have enjoyed The Quotable Einstein and The Expanded Quotable Einstein, with translations into twenty-two languages....
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